Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started. Instead, the British did what the Axis expected them to do. They tried, and failed, to hold the Mediterranean primarily with warships, and they concentrated their Mediterranean aircraft on the defense of Malta. Even now, properly used in the Mediterranean, as many bombers as the British sent over Bremen might make Alexandria and Suez secure...
...nature of aerial warfare-just as the Greek phalanx changed the nature of foot warfare in its day. Last week Air Marshal Harris' forces were unprecedented. After the Cologne raid (1,130 planes), the R.A.F. swept France (1,000), struck Essen (1,036), swept France (200), bombed Bremen (200), swept the Channel coast (500), revisited the Ruhr (about 200), hit Emden (perhaps 200), and fanned out to smaller objectives (over 2,000). Altogether Air Marshal Harris sent between 6,000 and 7,000 planes over the Continent in eight days' time...
...Europa and Bremen were reported to have been "completely burned out inside by saboteurs...
...evidence of this shift he cites: 1) the Bremen affair; 2) freezing of foreign funds in line with policies never submitted to Congress; 3) sending abroad of confidential personal agents instead of regular diplomatic officials; 4) release of military supplies and secrets to warring powers; 5) the destroyer-base deal; 6) the lend-lease provisions. "The parliament has so far lost even its confidence that it did not dare protest...
...confined its bombing to military objectives, many bombed factories were in densely populated districts where German civilians had inevitably been casualties, that according to "unimpeachable stories smuggled out of the Reich," 1,000 had been killed and 7,000 injured by R.A.F. raids on the city of Bremen alone, that in Berlin many had perished due to the collapse of cellars used as air-raid shelters...