Word: attack
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last fortnight across the Atlantic came details of another brand of German attack from the air: high-altitude, level-flight bombing, which the U. S. Army Air Corps uses to the exclusion of the diving attack. Returning travelers who saw the daylight raid on Paris, hundreds of other attacks through France, told of hearing raiders so high that they were out of sight in the clear sky. Yet these planes, starting out their campaign by smashing up France's airfields and pursuit resistance, methodically and unspectacularly brought a creeping paralysis to France's communications. Road junctions were reduced...
...There were about 250 planes in the attack," said he. "They were so high you couldn't see them but their number was estimated by the number of bombs dropped. Their accuracy was terrific. Of all the bombs dropped . . . the majority plunked right into the factory...
...coordinated job for two men, the pilot and the bombardier. These, with other types (Dornier, Junkers, etc.), were the ships that were trying to soften up Britain with intensified raids all last week (see above). A Heinkel He. in K is pictured on the opposite page during a hypothetical attack on the vital Thames Estuary and London docks...
...British started digging a 13-foot ditch from the Mediterranean to the Bay of Algeciras through the flat, sandy neck (1,300 yd. wide), joining the Rock and the Spanish mainland. Evidently they had reason to expect an attack on Gibraltar, either by loud-talking Spain or by German "tourists" with whom Spain is now crawling...
...Italy is really going to fight Great Britain for supremacy in Africa, she must launch an overland campaign to take Alexandria. Main base for this attack must be Libya, where, since Air Marshal Italo Balbo's death,* fire-eating Marshal Rodolfo Graziani has been getting ready. (Onset of the rainy season in Ethiopia had slowed up preparations for a supplementary attack northward up the Nile tributaries from the Sudan border...