Word: armament
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Political objectives were meshed with the military. The bombardiers' sights aimed at railroad yards, aircraft plants, armament works"and the will of the Italian people. The Allied High Command had had enough of temporizing by Premier Pietro Badoglio. With the bombs on Italy's cities fell leaflets goading the people: "The Mussolini Government is gone, but the Nazi war continues...
...Labor, especially in Ontario's armament centers, where government wage ceilings are under attack...
...Enables each ship to carry more armament...
...return. With the more heavily armed American day bombers, the story is different. Said a U.S. communique last week, reporting a score of 37 bombers to "nearly 100" German fighters in two raids: "The primary task of heavy bombers operating in daylight against war industry is to slow enemy armament production, but attrition against enemy fighter defenses, an important secondary consideration, is mounting steadily...
Gauleiter Hoffman of hard-hit Westphalia took the stand last week to counteract rumors of destruction and death circulating in the Ruhr. Said he: "It is claimed, for instance, that Hans Fritsche [official radio commentator] said in a broadcast that 10% of the armament industry has been destroyed in a raid on Dortmund. Fritsche said no such thing. This also applies to the catastrophe of the Möhne Dam. Twenty and 40 thousand were mentioned as the number of fatal casualties. The true figures were published. ... It is a deplorable fact . . . but we can admit it quite frankly...