Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifteenth U.S. Air Force sent planes "in force" to Innsbruck and Augsburg in southwest Germany. The Augsburg raid dramatized the enormous growth of Allied air power and air techniques: not so long ago (April 17, 1942) the R.A.F. could spare only twelve Lancasters for a costly, experimental daylight raid on Augsburg from Britain...
...howling success against U.S. daylight attacks, the Luftwaffe's new rocket-equipped planes flailed the night skies for the first time. The R.A.F.'s loss (30 bombers) was 25% lower than the last time it saw Berlin...
Germany. New Luftwaffe tactics again failed to halt U.S. daylight bombing or save the Germans from huge fighter losses...
...tons; U.S. share: 7,670 tons. U.S. losses were 93 heavy bombers, six mediums, 42 fighters. The R.A.F lost 224 planes, most of them heavy bombers. On average, the R.A.F. lost 1.5 planes per 100 tons dropped; the Eighth, 1.8 per 100. Ton for ton, the effectiveness of daylight precision bombing was undoubtedly greater than that of R.A.F. mass bombing. But, in toto, it was the R.A.F. which shook Germany the hardest...
...Luftwaffe was at wit's end. Its fighters might hurt but they could never stop the ponderous, night-hidden R.A.F. Fighter protection for U.S. daylight formations is neutralizing the Luftwaffe's newfangled rockets and its bombing technique against U.S. formations-so long as the bombers stay within escort range, which has not yet lengthened enough to embrace inner Germany. Many a U.S. gunner returns nowadays with ammunition boxes heaped high with unused shells...