Word: bremen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...daylight raid on Bremen, American losses were also high-16 bombers. The percentage was not announced, but up to last week no more than 133 American bombers had ever been over any one target in Europe. A few London correspondents noted that the U.S. Air Forces in Britain were training their daylight crews in night flying, deduced that daylight bombing was to be abandoned or subordinated to night bombing...
...target, the U-boat works at Vegesack, near Bremen, was nearly lined up in the bombsight. Topside, Jack's skipper had called for readiness. Suddenly a burst of flak punched the plane on the nose. Jack Mathis was hit in the chest, side and back. The plane shuddered, went right on into the groove. Jack picked himself up, crawled in a widening path of his own blood back to the Norden bombsight, made his final adjustments with his left hand (his right was limp). At the proper moment...
Slowdown for Knockout. A substantial section of the Luftwaffe has been pinned in Western Europe. The catalogue of German factories, shipyards, railway centers and power plants smashed by the R.A.F. is impressive. Damage to morale in such often-visited cities as Hamburg, Bremen and Cologne must have been severe. Still Germany fights...
...sseldorf's turn came on a moonless night last week. Three nights later it was Bremen's. Simultaneously Soviet bombers ranged over eastern Europe, attacking Königsberg in East Prussia, Bucharest and Rumania's Ploesti oil fields...
...offensive of the United Nations seemed to be gaining in coordination, as well as in force and frequency. The Bremen raid involved perhaps 400 to 500 planes. The force which plastered Düsseldorf and its great steel works was closer to the 1,000-plane figure than any which had hit the Continent since June 1, when Cologne took a knockout blow...