Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north, the latitude of Hamburg, Bremen and other north German targets, June nights provide the shortest hours of protective darkness, the fewest nights when cloud conditions are suitable (i.e., neither perfectly clear nor thickly blanketed). In fact, if weather and clock were allowed to control air operations from Britain, there could never be a second air front in Europe. Now the R.A.F. is shaking off the shackles, risking more in order to achieve more...
Attacking Bremen four nights in eight, the R.A.F. went die-straight to two sources of Nazi troublemaking: the U-boat yards and plane factories of Germany's second port. British authorities described the ancient Hanseatic city, after its four-raid treatment, as in the same rubble-heaped condition as Rostock, Lübeck and Cologne, pocked by huge craters, smudged by long-burning fires...
Highly important to the U.S. was the fact that Bremen sheltered one of Germany's greatest U-boat building yards, the Deschimag works. Also important to second front possibilities was the fact that Bremen's sprawling docks funnel most of the German Army's supplies to Norway. It is a funnel that must be plugged if Norway should be the site of a frontal assault. Bremen, too, was the home of commerce-raiding, long-range Condor planes and the Focke-Wulf aircraft plant, where some of Hitler's deadliest fighter planes were built. Aerial photographs showed...
...weather was right, the R.A.F. was ready, and Bremen caught 75 minutes of bombers' hell. On aircraft plants, dockyards and submarine works fell the same destruction which blanketed Cologne and Essen earlier. The British said that the 52 planes which did not return were less than 5% of the armada; ergo, more than 1,000 bombers had assaulted Bremen...
Twenty-three nights had passed since the R.A.F. sent as many planes over a single objective, and the Bremen raid was no proof that the British were yet able to sustain the night-by-night, city-by-city offensive which they had promised. But the fact that the R.A.F. could do it at all was proof enough that still more can be done, more often than British airmen believed possible a bare six months ago. Britain's tricky weather, its restricted airfield space, the short nights of summer and the foggy ones of winter-these and other limitations...