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Word: wilmersdorf (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...five hours one night, raiders swarmed overhead, dodging and twisting through the pink-orange-white pattern of bursting anti-aircraft shells, flying through the heaviest barrage Berlin had yet thrown up. With parachute flares to light their targets, they splashed bombs on the Tempelhof railroad yards, the Moabit and Wilmersdorf power stations, an airplane-engine factory in suburban Spandau, a gas plant in Tegel. In the ruins of factories and apartment houses 25 people were killed, 60 injured, according to the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE AIR: Master Plan | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

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