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...daylight a young reconnaissance pilot, roaring overhead to make photographs in his P-38 Lightning, beheld a vast, fascinating panoply of war spread out beneath him. Allied warships* were cruising in toward shore, turning loose murderous salvos at the enemy coast, then swerving out to avoid coastal defense batteries. The ships had kindled a chain of smoke and flame extending ten miles inland...
...lost, some 1,200 German fighters destroyed, some 12,000 tons of bombs dropped in 75 raids on Occupied France, the Lowlands and Germany. Principal achievements: 1) the damage done to German submarine bases on the Atlantic coast; 2) the ending of all doubts that the Eighth's daylight, precision bombing is worthwhile; 3) the drain on Luftwaffe fighter strength...
...four daylight raids on Germany and three on Occupied France, the Eighth Air Force dropped "between 2,000 and 3,000 tons." (Correspondents thought it was nearer 3,000 tons.) Heaviest U.S. load on a single target: 500 tons, concentrated on a synthetic rubber plant...
...R.A.F. lost 270 four-engined Halifaxes, Stirlings and Lancasters; the Eighth lost 82 Fortresses and Liberators (plus an unannounced number of damaged bombers in both commands). In all operations, including many lesser sweeps over France and the Lowlands, the R.A.F. shot down 108 German fighters. The Eighth's daylight gunners reported that they destroyed 271 German fighters, probably destroyed 84 more, damaged 178. In the considered opinion of R.A.F. and U.S. air commanders, these figures meant that the Luftwaffe fighter strength is being steadily depleted...
...generally take their losses, inflict relatively few in return. With the more heavily armed American day bombers, the story is different. Said a U.S. communique last week, reporting a score of 37 bombers to "nearly 100" German fighters in two raids: "The primary task of heavy bombers operating in daylight against war industry is to slow enemy armament production, but attrition against enemy fighter defenses, an important secondary consideration, is mounting steadily...