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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another preliminary, expected all along, would be intensified air attacks. Last week there was a tentative intensification, but not quite the real thing. There was a notable revival of daylight raids, in which Nazi planes undertook low-flying attacks on railways and their stations, ports and their installations, on airfields, troop camps, towns and villages. In fire raids on London, the Nazis reversed previous tactics, now dropping explosives before incendiaries, hoping to make fire fighters lie low while fires caught on. For three bad nights in a row, the South Wales port of Swansea took a pasting. On two successive...
...undertook its longest operational flight of the war last week-nearly 1,800 miles to and from Cracow and Katowice, Poland, where leaflets were dropped. Hard-boiled Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal does not have many illusions about winning friends and influencing people with pamphlets. The raid had more tangible fruits in the way of experience...
...land the confident Italians began what appeared to be a giant pinch on the Canal. They drove a small British garrison out of British Somaliland, and undertook an invasion of Egypt which stalled at Sidi Barrani. Then came a turning point in the Eastern basin. Benito Mussolini called for an invasion of Greece...
Under Sir Andrew Cunningham's second-in-command, acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, an expert on big ships, the battle force undertook daring raids into the Strait of Otranto and once far beyond Valona in the Adriatic. It also laid siege to the Italian Dodecanese Islands. Last week the fleet splashed into "bomb alley"-the narrow Sicilian channel dominated by Italian Pantelleria on the one hand and German Stuka forces based on the island of Sicily on the other. But the Axis did not show its double head...
...astounding British successes in Africa could have happened had it not been for the Eastern Fleet. With a force of four battleships, two battle cruisers, two carriers, eight to ten light and heavy cruisers, plenty of destroyers, at least two flotillas of submarines, the Navy calmly undertook a most complicated double problem. One part of the problem was shelling: Each time the British and Australians ashore attacked an Italian fort on the Libyan littoral, the fleet submitted the place to a terrible shellacking from the sea, lazily drifting along the coast and lobbing hundreds of tons of steel into...