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...ridiculed, Wellington made his first speech in two years: "They were not objects of contempt to the enemies of their country." In his camps in India he read constantly, kept on the move, ate frugally, drank little.* His officers, up at 4:30, drank a cup of tea before daylight, breakfasted in their overcoats on a table before Wellington's tent, and then set out on the day's march, the Duke riding on the dusty flank...
...Eighth's Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker not been certain the Luftwaffe was being pushed inland, he never would have tried an eight- to ten-hour daylight raid over Germany...
Reconnaissance studies showed that four R.A.F. night raids, two U.S. daylight raids in July and August wrecked about nine sq. mi. (or 77%) of Hamburg, left that port a dead city...
...aerial preparation began many days before the 24-hour blow at the coast. Part of this pattern of power was the R.A.F.'s series of night raids on Berlin and other German targets in the preceding fortnight, on Munich and Mannheim-Ludwigshafen last week. So was a strong daylight raid by U.S. Fortresses on Stuttgart. The immediate purpose of these raids was local destruction, but they also furthered the campaign to whittle away German fighter forces and pin them down far from the coasts...
...some 1,800 U.S. and British planes had flown over France. Eighth Air Force planes alone had flown more than 1,000 daylight sorties (individual missions). The Allies had lost ten planes; the Germans had lost 16 and would have lost many more if they had dared to, or been able to, accept the challenge...