Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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parried all forms of attack successfully by day, seeming even to invite the Luftwaffe in over the land so that casualties would fall on British soil. Combats took place mostly at out-of -sight altitudes. According to British claims, the ratio of German craft shot down to British craft lost fell lower than two-to-one (25-10-15) during the week, then rose again toward week's end to 63-10-22 and 85-10-37 as the Ger mans became more numerous on bright days with scattered clouds...
...fourth active week was the institution of regular night raids on the two warring capitals, London and Berlin. The British had expected this. The Germans had not. Sharp was the surprise of Berliners, who had been told for a year by their High Command that no enemy attack would ever reach their midst, to hear bombs exploding and see fires raging within a few blocks of the Wilhelmstrasse...
Entering the second year of war and the fourth week of their main attack on Britain, the Germans used their superior numbers to keep the R. A. F. constantly on the go, with "nuisance" raiders over Britain at all hours. A lot of their night flights were evidently for training, for extra pilots baled out of many planes brought down. Lest their morale be affected by repeated rebuffs from the defense rings around London, watchful agents of the Gestapo rode in many of the Luftwaffe's formations. R. A. F. called them "German governesses" and took special delight when...
...back of the Mediterranean stove, evidently waiting for the Vienna chefs to season their Balkan stew (see p. 24), for cooler weather in the Egyptian desert, for the end of the rains in Ethiopia, for Germany to hamstring the British at home or join in a Southern Theatre attack. To keep the pot respectably warm, the Italian Air Force performed a few missions...
...blob of territory south of Libya, had elected to fight on with Britain, that there were strong stirrings in French West Africa to join them (see p. 28). Australian anti-aircraftmen arrived and set up their guns in Cairo ?a sure sign that Egypt expected an Italian attack soon, since Australians were not wanted in Egypt after their too hearty conduct there in the last war. Other Australians, in mechanized units, saw their first action of this war when they made a border raid near Italian-held Kassala, in the Sudan. This raid was a sign the rains were...