Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope for the best." It was a grim bit of humor. In November V-bombs had killed 716 civilians, had injured 1,511. Londoners did not have to compare November's toll with October's (172 killed, 416 injured) to realize that V-2 was now a threat to bring back the worst days of last summer,* before a defense had been found against...
...August's toll: 1,103 killed...
...trade, dwindling foreign balances and pyramiding debts, were others even darker. In five years the island kingdom, with a population little more than one-third that of the U.S., had suffered as many casualties-from its armed forces alone-as had the U.S. in three years. Britain's toll: 176,081 killed, 38,275 missing, 193,788 wounded, 154,968 prisoners of war. In addition, the blitz and the buzz-bomb had taken a toll of 57,298 killed (including 7,250 children and 23,757 women), and injured 78,818 more. No question, the bloody 'eroes...
London took it one more week. Fifteen persons were killed in one night of repeated salvos (the Germans were sending over V-1 as well as the wingless rocket). October's toll (172 civilians killed, 416 injured) was considerably less than in the early days of V-1 last summer, included an unspecified number of V-2 victims...
Tropical diseases and heat took a heavy toll. Rain turned roads and storage dumps into bogs. But in five months, with 16,000 men working eight-hour shifts around the clock seven days a week, they built a base to supply, repair and maintain a naval fleet on the southern flank of the Japanese Empire...