| 单词 | thunderbolt raid |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthunderbolt raid thunderbolt raid n. (also thunderbolt attack) a short-lived but heavy air-raid. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > type of terror raid1917 blitzkrieg1939 blitz1940 fire-blitz1940 fire-raid1940 Baedeker raid1942 nuisance raid1942 thunderbolt raid1943 1943 Hutchinson's Pict. Hist. War 25 Nov. 1942–16 Feb. 1943 240/1 At night Lancasters and Halifaxes carry out a large-scale ‘thunderbolt’ raid on Duesseldorf, dropping several hundred tons of bombs in a 20-minutes attack. 1944 H. Hawton Night Bombing v. 66 There is no necessary connection between concentrated and precision bombing, but it would be quite wrong to think that the ‘thunderbolt attack’, as it is sometimes called, lacks exactness. The Renault factory was almost completely demolished in an attack of short duration. < as lemmas |
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