Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...strategy of destruction" was based, he said, on the fact that democratic governments were under the control of public opinion. "To prepare the way for military attack on a democracy they [the dictators] employ every possible variety of agent and propaganda to befuddle the public so that the democracy will not prepare in time...
...They are not yet in a position to attack America by military means; but their campaign of befuddlement, their preparatory assault, is following the same lines in America that it followed in France. . . . How many Americans today are playing the dictators' game without knowing...
...bomber waves arrived. The British fighters on "standing patrol" along the Channel met them on two levels, one force to shoot down bombers, one to fight fighters. Often, as the British engaged the Germans, a second and third wave of bombers appeared and more British fighters would rise to attack them. Hitler had set himself to beat Britain to its knees...
Simultaneously with this elaborately staged first attack on London, the Luftwaffe launched mass attacks on Birmingham and Rochester, in which their fast-climbing, heavily armed bomber, the Dormer 215, played an important part. On Aug. 18 they flew up the Thames Estuary and mass-attacked London again. One vital thing in danger was the city's water supply. Thus, day after day, without intermission, except for an occasional half day of bad weather, the world's No. 1 air force went to the attack...
When Erhard Milch was made a Marshal last month, absent from the ceremonies were two of his closest colleagues, who were made Marshals also. These were Albert Kesselring and Hugo Sperrle. They were all busy in the newly occupied areas, getting ready their air fleets for the grand attack on Great Britain. Like Milch, Kesselring was an artillery officer in the last war, switching to the air in 1933. He helped plan the Poland offensive and directed Air Fleet No. 1 in it. A tall, well-built, happy-go-lucky Bavarian, he is probably the Luftwaffe's most popular...