Word: bombe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...most part, sleeping farm people were killed here & there and hayricks were ignited. But one monster land mine (1,000-lb. bomb which descends slowly and silently by parachute) struck the heart of Dublin's Jewish quarter. It blew Eire's chief synagogue to pieces, damaged so many houses that 40 families took to the streets. By the lurid light of rescue flares, 26 people were rushed to hospitals, including a rabbi, his wife and daughter...
From Eire in due course it was reported that bomb fragments and the green parachutes had been examined and indeed found to be of German make. Eire's Charge d'Affaires in Berlin was instructed to protest the bombing, demand full reparations. A British short-wave broadcast crowed: "There is no loophole through which Hitler may wriggle. Pieces of the missiles have been picked up with German identification marks on them. We are forced to one of two conclusions. They either meant it or they didn't. They either intentionally bombed another country, or, and perish...
...thought the British would last only 108 hours after such an invasion began. Out of the enormous Luftwaffe reserve, Germany was expected to form three vast air fleets of 6,000 planes each, able to sweep the R. A. F. out of the skies and bomb Britain's resistance to bits. After an unending four-day-& -night attack there would be no need for invasion. The home Army would be completely broken, the home Fleet destroyed, the Government ready to capitulate...
...first eyewitness book published in the. U. S. about Britain in its recent months of trial by bomb last week appeared. It was Report on England: November, 1940 (Simon & Schuster; $1.50), expanded from a series of newspaper stories written by Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor of Manhattan's afternoon tabloid, PM. He flew to Britain last fall, spent two weeks listening to air-raid alarms, looking at shelters, talking with newsmen, firemen, doctors, pilots, officials -including Winston Churchill, Ernest Bevin. Then he flew home...
...Chinese Christians," thinks Mr. Barnett, "can teach Americans a lot." A symbol of their spirit is the paperweight on his Manhattan desk - a fragment of the bomb with which a Japanese plane com pletely destroyed the big Y auditorium at Chungking two days before he got there last June. Though Chungking's Y has now been bombed five times, the work goes on regardless. Says its dogged Chinese general secretary: "They may destroy all our buildings, but they can't destroy...