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...bombers struck at Paris, at the Gnôme-Rhône engine works and the old Goodrich rubber plant at Gennevilliers. They whacked at the big Diesel engine plant at Augsburg, at naval installations at Kiel...
...numbers which correspondents computed by hundreds, the R.A.F. swept by day and swatted by night. Italy's faraway golden triangle - Turin, Milan, Genoa-was bombed nonstop from England. Augsburg in Bavaria, another distant target, was bombed daringly by day. The Ruhr got it two nights. Hamburg was pasted. But the real noise and numbers were the daylight sweeps along the French coast and the invasion ports-Lorient, Le Havre, St. Nazaire, Cherbourg, Dunkirk, Calais, Rouen, carried out mainly by Spitfire-protected Hurricanes, converted to carry light bombs and nicknamed Hurribombers. One day more than 400 planes went over...
Hess took off from the Messerschmitt plant at Augsburg in a new type of reconnaissance plane on a Saturday evening. He wore a gold wrist watch, a gold wrist compass. In the pockets of his superbly tailored flier's uniform he had a photograph of his four-year-old son, two phials of medicine, one for his weak heart, the other for a gall-bladder ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel...
...most extraordinary war began last week this way: On Monday night the Nazi Party headquarters in Berlin announced that Rudolf Walther Richard Hess was missing on a plane flight. Against Adolf Hitler's orders -for Hess was suffering from a "progressive disease"-Hess had boarded a plane in Augsburg, Bavaria on Saturday. Since then he was presumed to have disappeared and died. He had left behind a letter which "showed clearly traces of mental disorder which led to fears that Party Comrade Hess was a victim of hallucinations." Hess's adjutants, it was also reported from Germany...
Fortnight before, Hitler's "shadow"-the young World War I infantryman and Air Force pilot who had got caught in the 1923 Munich beer-hall Putsch and had gone to jail with Hitler and had helped him write Mein Kampf in prison-had traveled to Augsburg and decorated Willy Messerschmitt at the Messerschmitt aircraft factory for services to the Fatherland. Three days later Hess had sat on the dais of Berlin's Kroll Opera House, arms folded and beetle-brows lowered, while his frenzied colleague of 21 hard years of struggle had crowed over the victory...