What is "raiding"

Usage examples of "raiding".

Bomber Command that, throughout the trials of the coming winter, only two more damaged bombers took refuge in Sweden while raiding Berlin, even though routes often passed close by and the lights of that neutral country must have tempted many a crew.

The main features of the planning were long, northerly outward and return routes over Denmark and the Baltic which would be well away from most of the German night-fighter bases but would also reduce the bomb tonnage carried by the raiding force, and raids by Oboe Mosquitoes on four of the most important night-fighter airfields in Holland, this support being provided for the first time.

Bomber Command lost the equivalent of its entire front-line strength in attempting to destroy Berlin, and a similar loss was incurred in raiding other targets in Germany during the same period.

Airfields in the Verdun and Nancy areas were less than 200 miles from cities such as Stuttgart, Mannheim, Cologne and those of the Ruhr, and French bombers had been raiding Germany since the summer of 1916.

Officer Logan and all his crew were killed on 23 September 1943 while raiding Mannheim but the Stirling in which he returned from Hamburg, EE 881, survived the war, serving with 75 Squadron until June 1944 and then with a training unit.

Of the six Wellingtons which had been sent each night to lay mines in the River Elbe while the bombers were raiding Hamburg, one had crashed on take-off and one was missing after crashing in the sea, and two Fighter Command Mosquitoes had been lost in Intruder operations which were in direct support to the Hamburg raids.

This probability is greatly increased by the fact that they will realise that the armed forces in Great Britain are now far stronger than they have ever been, and that their raiding parties would not have to meet half-trained formations, but the men whose mettle they have already tested, and from whom they have recoiled, not daring seriously to molest their departure.

It is of the highest consequence to keep the largest numbers of German forces all along the coasts of the countries they have conquered, and we should immediately set to work to organise raiding forces on these coasts where the populations are friendly.

However, the intensification of raiding has made it inexpedient to abolish the sirens at this moment.

We should also be able to base on Ceylon a battle cruiser and a fast aircraft-carrier, which with all the Australian and New Zealand cruisers and destroyers, which would return to you, would act as a very powerful deterrent upon the hostile raiding cruisers.

The appearance of a raiding pocket battleship in the Atlantic has forced us to provide battleship escort again for our convoys, and we are forming hunting-groups for the raiders in the South Atlantic, and if necessary in the Indian Ocean.

A young boy with a stump where his left hand should have been was quietly moving from cave mouth to cave mouth, raiding the burnt-out fires for usable fuel.

The days when we could run into the hills and wait for a raiding fleet from Krondor or Elarial to grow bored and leave are long over.

Plains tribes that the civilized states had entered into the Agreement of the Holy Scourge concerning the disputed lands, and would hereafter wreak stern vengeance on the nomadic peoples and bandit groups for any further raiding activities.

Lalyahe shrieked orders for counterattack, but the eunuchs and priestesses only parted ranks before the tight phalanx of knife-and-club-armed raiding party.