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Swooping down on a bridge at Dillingen, east of Ulm, the U.S. Seventh Army's 12th Armored Division ripped the fuse out of a 5,000-lb. demolition charge under the bridge, crossed the Danube River and pressed on toward Augsburg. On the road beyond Nurnberg. other units of the Seventh were more than halfway to Regensburg...
...started their offensive. Under cover of a long spell of bad weather, German war plants had bounded back into high production, and a battered Luftwaffe was not only recovering but expanding fast when, on Feb. 20, Allied airmen struck. For five days bombers pounded Leipzig, Bernburg, Brunswick, Oschersleben, Regensburg, Augsburg, Furth, Stuttgart. "We lost 244 heavy bombers and 33 fighting planes." But-'"those five days changed the history of the air war." German aircraft plants never recovered from the aerial onslaught...
...night the R.A.F. sent 1,000 heavy bombers against Stuttgart, Amiens and Munich, dumping a record bomb load of 3,360 tons. On the day before that, U.S. day-flying bombers from Britain had attacked Brunswick. On the day after, the U.S. heavies struck again, this time at Augsburg and Ulm. After dark the R.A.F. swarmed out again, to Amiens and Clermont-Ferrand. Next day the U.S. punch fell on Vienna; at night the R.A.F. attacked Sofia...
...Punch. Still another day, and a U.S. air fleet, estimated at 1,600 to 2,000 bombers and fighter escorts, launched a blow deep into South Germany, hitting Augsburg and four other towns. By nightfall, the R.A.F. crews were briefed and ready for a heavy followup, aimed mainly at Frankfort on the Main. And through the week, almost obscured by the work of the heavy bombers, fleets of mediums and fighter bombers struck methodically at Western France, dropped 5,000 tons of bombs in five days...
...heavies were out again. On Tuesday they were joined by bombers of the Fifteenth Air Force, based in Italy, which flew north to strike at Regensburg, and followed the next day with a raid on Steyr. in Austria. In balanced rhythm the R.A.F. followed the Americans in smashes at Augsburg and Schweinfurt...