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Reconnaissance photos made after the raids on Rostock and Lübeck indicate that this is at least partially the case. They show enormous destruction. Travelers on an airliner from London to Stockholm reported they had seen the red glare of Rostock's flames for 250 miles across the Baltic...
Triphammers' Trips. After the Lübeck and Rostock raids the four-motored bombers swung into Norway, turned up with 75 heavy bombers over Trondheim, where the Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen are holed up. Under a bright bomber's moon, the raiders went after another target -a big submarine base just completed after two years of work by Danish vassal labor. Few days later the returns came in from agents in Sweden: two years had been wasted. The base was reported a ruin...
...crisis for Leningrad was pointed to by Moscow's announcement last week that a Nazi battleship* and a 9,000-ton transport had been sunk by the Red Banner Baltic Fleet. Perhaps all-out R.A.F. attacks on Lübeck and Rostock, German Baltic supply bases, indicated the same thing...
Begetters of CAP were Gill Robb Wilson, World War I flyer, poet, New Jersey State aviation director; Guy Gannett. Maine newspaper publisher; Thomas H. Beck, huge, booming-voiced president of Crowell-Collier Publishing Co. Chief executive is another hulk of a man, Earle Johnson of Ohio, 6 ft. 4½ in., newly commissioned a captain in the Army Air Force...
Most pulverizing British air attack since the R.A.F. punished the Baltic port of Lübeck in March occurred at another Baltic port, Rostock, 60 miles away. In one hour one night British airmen dropped the "greatest weight of bombs" ever delivered in one package by the R.A.F. The following night the British were back again. The night after that, and the night after that, they were back yet again & again. When they left they were certain that it would be a long time before Rostock, staggering under the weight of 800 tons of bombs, would function efficiently...