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...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...
...with them never intended 1942 to be decisive; they intended it only to be a test. The measure of this test was the extent and nature of the German target-a scattered conglomeration of cities, varying from the industrial concentrations of the Ruhr to the ports of Hamburg and Bremen, the naval bases of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. The R.A.F. and the U.S. Air Forces have calculated the minimum damage necessary to bring a decision. This calculation is secret. Unofficially, the view of airmen is that one-third to one-half of Germany's industrial establishment must be destroyed...
Second Lieut. John B. Mulvana, bombardier of the Flying Fortress "Old Bill," dropped his bombs over Bremen, then started testing his machine guns. He fired a 20-round burst, watching the feeder mechanisms. A voice shouted over the interphone: "You got him! Why don't you call out those attacks!" Mulvana looked up just in time to see a Messerschmitt 109, which had popped out of a cloud and into the line of fire, falling away and coming apart...