Word: darknesse
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After the fall of France, when they realized that it would not be long until Hitler began to bomb Britain, the British began to bomb Germany seriously. The first bombing (as distinct from pamphlet) raid on Berlin occurred Aug. 25. Of the 23 bombing raids on Berlin up to this...
Mrs. Bigelow was right. Gone were the grey, morgue-like walls, the drab showcases, the cloistered darkness of the old store at 37th Street. Instead, large windows, scarcely marred by crossbars, admitted beams of sunlight. Even the clerks looked a little younger. But one thing had not changed, probably never...
Wine will be waiting for you when you reach Kunming." On the stroke of midnight, Burma time, British officials gave the word to go. At 12:07 the first truck bored away into the darkness. At 12:27 a score more started. By 2 a.m. the first convoy of 60...
At 2 :30 a.m. it came. Through the ship's corridors ran the call "Action Stations." Fire gongs clanged. Out of the darkness darted a flotilla of speedy, 679-ton torpedo boats, charging in close to loose a shoal of their tin fish. Heeling over hard, the Ajax spurted...
About 70 miles southeast of Sicily (both sides agreed) the action began. This had always been a likely spot for an Italian hit-&-run attack, within easy range of the torpedo boats based at Syracuse. Heavy darkness and calm sea made it perfect. Fanning out ahead of the main British...