Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Target. Next night the R.A.F. used tactics which strained the Germans still further. Heavy bombers "in strength" headed for Berlin.* The Germans were ready: they roofed the skyroad to the capital with flares and swarms of night fighters. But within sight of Berlin itself, the bombers turned away and flew 90 miles to the southward. The tricked night fighters, out of fuel, had to land...
...sharpshooting, well-escorted Eighth mounted four attacks by 400 or more bombers, aimed at priority targets in Wilhelmshaven, Gelsenkirchen & Münster (twin target), Bremen (twice). Between these city-busters, heavy bombers in lesser force hit seven times at industrial targets in Germany and Norway; U.S. and R.A.F. medium bombers and fighter-bombers pecked away day & night in a precise pattern of attack on factories, airdromes, shipping, the Reich's outer defenses...
...offensive was probably timed to coincide with an ultimatum to Germany's people to overthrow their government and end the bombing (see p. 32). The morale of Berliners and Germans was as much the R.A.F.'s target as the sprawling fac tories, Government offices and railway communications of their capital. The Battle of Berlin will continue, said the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, "as opportunity serves and cir cumstances dictate until the heart of Nazi Germany ceases to beat...
...Innocent Voyage (adapted by Paul Osborn from Richard Hughes's novel A High Wind in Jamaica; produced by The Theatre Guild) makes a game try at a tough target. Richard Hughes's strikingly original novel is a caution to dramatize. In one sense a fantasy about some 19th-Century children who fell into the hands of pirates and plagued the merry life out of them, it is also a bold study of the seemingly innocent but impenetrable, amoral and frequently shocking nature of children...
...home the Sergeant's flight passed about 150 Allied fighters heading at 30,000 ft. towards the false target. When these fighters reached the area . . . they found 45 Messerschmitts circling at 20,000 ft. . . . The Allies dove on the Me's, destroyed 30 of them. Sergeant Sachnoff received the D.F.C.-for being the type of guy who doesn't believe everything he hears...