Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commenting first on the success of U.S. submarine warfare against Jap shipping, he discussed Portugal's granting of Azores facilities to the Allies; revealed that a staggering total of 855 U.S. planes, using 1,000,000 gallons of high octane gasoline, had participated in the blasting of Bremen and Vegesack; announced that Good Neighbor Venezuela's President, General Isaias Medina Angarita, would visit the U.S. before year's end; and finally took to task the five vocal globe-touring Senators whose criticism of the Administration and the British has caused international reverberations...
Single-Engine Aircraft Construction: Focke-Wulf assembly and component plants hit at Bremen (considerable damage, plant abandoned), Kassel (one considerable, one negligible), Oschersleben (light), Warnemunde (light), Marienburg (devastated), Anklam (most severe); Messerschmitt 109G plants severely damaged at Regensburg and Wiener-Neustadt; Paris Renault plant heavily damaged...
...before, when the Eighth went to Bremen, Fortresses, Liberators and long-range Thunderbolt fighters shot down 142 Nazis, lost 30 bombers, three fighters. This week Fortresses set fire to Minister. The bombers shot down 81 Nazi fighters, escorting Thunderbolts 21 more. U.S. losses: 30 bombers, two fighters...
...Other notable victims: Empress of Britain, 42,000 tons; Statendam, 29,000 tons; President Coolidge, 22,000 tons. The Germans' own 50,000-ton liners, Bremen and Europa, have been reported damaged or destroyed by fire, either from bombing or sabotage...
...bombers did not return-the heaviest loss yet suffered by U.S. bombers in Britain. One force was sent out over Kiel. This raid drew off most of the Luftwaffe's fighters and precipitated one of the greatest air battles of World War II. The other, larger force raided Bremen comparatively unhindered...