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...Since March, when U-boat marauding in the western Atlantic grew intense, the R.A.F had blasted a pattern of destruction through German submarine-building cities, seeking to choke off U-boats at their source. Among them were Augsburg and Cologne (diesel engines), Essen (plates and torpedo tubes), Emden and Bremen (assembly yards), Warnemünde (U-boat training base), Wilhelmshaven and St. Nazaire, France (operational bases...
...Nazis were known to have dispersed their U-boat industry throughout the Reich and occupied territory to evade the R.A.F., breaking up such pre-war building centers as Hamburg, Kiel, Bremen. Relentlessly the R.A.F. has searched out new plants and plastered them with explosives...
...north, the latitude of Hamburg, Bremen and other north German targets, June nights provide the shortest hours of protective darkness, the fewest nights when cloud conditions are suitable (i.e., neither perfectly clear nor thickly blanketed). In fact, if weather and clock were allowed to control air operations from Britain, there could never be a second air front in Europe. Now the R.A.F. is shaking off the shackles, risking more in order to achieve more...
...R.A.F. lost 271 aircraft in the month's operations over Germany and occupied territory, while the Germans lost only 100 over Britain and western Europe. Though there were only two 1,000-plane raids (on the Ruhr June 1, on Bremen June 25), the Bomber Command was far from idle. It carried through 16 raids on German objectives and 33 on occupied territory, some of them sweeps by 300 or more planes. July got off to a poorer start. Until the shipbuilding port of Wilhelmshaven was attacked last week, German soil had six raid-free days...
Highly important to the U.S. was the fact that Bremen sheltered one of Germany's greatest U-boat building yards, the Deschimag works. Also important to second front possibilities was the fact that Bremen's sprawling docks funnel most of the German Army's supplies to Norway. It is a funnel that must be plugged if Norway should be the site of a frontal assault. Bremen, too, was the home of commerce-raiding, long-range Condor planes and the Focke-Wulf aircraft plant, where some of Hitler's deadliest fighter planes were built. Aerial photographs showed...