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...world's press soon concluded that the R.A.F. was out to defeat Germany with bombs in 1942: Cologne, Essen, Bremen flamed under 1,000-plane raids and upwards of 1,000 tons of bombs. Harris had to tell Britons and Americans that such raids could not then be sustained: "That time will come. It may not be long delayed." The raids dropped in weight, but they were still tremendous, and more & more of the bombers were four-engined Halifaxes, Stirlings and the new Lancasters. The first Americans arrived in Britain, and Harris took the air to tell the Germans...
American airmen in Britain are still talking about their last raid on Bremen (TIME, April 26). Then, as never before, they took it on the chin: 16 Flying Fortresses and 144 highly trained men . went down, other planes and crews were badly shot up. At one base, the night after the raid, an entire barracks was empty. The loss was serious, its effects were prolonged. Replacements had to be whipped into shape, squadrons and crews had to be broken up to scatter the experienced survivors among the newcomers. Until May 1, when new crews were trained, damaged planes repaired...
...Bremen losses testified to the strength of Germany's defensive fighter forces. One bomber pilot who got back said that most of the time he was under attack by seven enemy planes; he had seen other Fortresses surrounded by as many as 15 Nazi fighters. Sixty-three Germans were shot down; but that was not enough...
...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...