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...Lancasters gleamed wet on the runways. Over the Dover Strait, on the route to Germany, the fog lay thick and grey. At 10,000 feet, the operational altitude for the big planes, the long summer twilight never ended: the bombers flying on night missions now would fly by daylight when they reached that height...
...against one objective. The big bombers flew unescorted by fighters-one reason, perhaps, why the losses were so heavy. It was too soon to say definitely whether General Eaker was right, but the attacks proved that the Germans are still able to muster heavy defenses against points threatened by daylight assaults...
Much public breath and some official energy was wasted on a dispute between R.A.F. night mass bombing v. U.S. daylight precision bombing. Gradually both the public and the two services realized that one method complemented the other. And the list of flaming cities grew; the R.A.F. in 1942 dropped 37,000 tons of bombs on German targets, probably three times the weight dropped on Britain in 1940 and early...
...Enemy. At 11 o'clock, it came again. The deck plates rattled as a pattern of depth charges thundered in the Spencer's wake. But the tension was less than during the attack in darkness. Daylight seldom yields much in the battle against submarines. In their sea-stained zipper jackets and dungarees, Coast Guardsmen joked and talked about their next shore leave...
...this means a kind of hell for the bomber crews which the bare loss figures do not convey: old friends suddenly gone from the Red Cross snack bars, destruction and blood and death in many of the planes which limp home. It definitely does not mean that U.S. daylight bombing is to be abandoned or diminished, but it does mean that the price of such bombing must be high until the Eighth Air Force finds an answer to the Nazi fighter system...