Word: warned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nests of air power and transshipment centers. The only newspaperman to accompany "the most dangerous mission ever attempted by fighters and bombers of the Fourteenth Air Force" White cabled: "Surprise and good navigation were vital to success. The mission was to be at almost suicidal level-even five minutes warning would give the Zeros enough time to take off, climb and turn to the attack. We had to come in from the sea precisely at the coastal airdrome-an error of two degrees, a miss by ten miles or more, would warn the entire coast...
...Plot. Witnesses testified: when defective castings were rejected by Packard National Bronze plugged and welded the holes and cracks in a secret welding room, the dirty work guarded by a special alarm system to warn the welders when Packard officials and air-force inspectors visited the plant. When suspicious Packard officials rejected $130,000 worth of castings and ordered them scrapped-after repeated warnings to National Bronze that defective parts would kill U.S. flyers-the company patched up the parts, changed the serial numbers and shipped them back to Packard as new parts. Some of the castings were so weak...
...flight 229 heard off-the-record talks by Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall and the Army Air Forces' General Henry H. Arnold. They heard Lieut. General Joseph T. McNarney warn that the fight ahead will be hard and bloody; Major General George V. Strong, Assistant Chief of Military Intelligence, report that German air strength was greater than in 1939, that continued bombings had not broken German morale, and that Hitler had almost three times as many field combat divisions as in the autumn of 1939. Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson keynoted...
...wore overcoats in their homes and there was hot water just one day each week. It was in these circumstances that Hitler, on Aug. 25, appointed Heinrich Himmler Minister of the Interior, with full powers over the home front. Soon trials and executions of "defeatists" began. Himmler had to warn Party members that they would henceforth wear their Party badges or go to concentration camps. A Gestapo "observer" was assigned to every German regiment...
...months had passed since Mussolini's fall. Now Winston Churchill had come before the House of Commons to give account of the blood and tears it took to score this victory, to warn of the sacrifices yet to be demanded, to make bold and confident prophecy...