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Necessity also lay behind such reasoning. U.S. heavy bombers, with high speed, great defensive firepower and small bomb capacity (two and four tons), are best suited to daylight precision bombing. British bombers, slower, with less armament and greater bomb capacity (eight and nine tons), are best suited to night operations...
...been reported destroyed. Apparently unable to pierce the eleven-foot roofs of the concrete sub pens, the Allied bombers have concentrated on softer targets which are vital to maintenance and repair. Result: 75% of Lorient's headquarters buildings have been wrecked; shops, foundries, warehouses have been knocked down. Daylight precision bombing by Flying Fortresses has undoubtedly affected the morale of workers and returning U-boat crews. This week the Nazis ordered evacuation of Lorient's civilian population...
...first I knew that things were beginning to happen was when the air-raid sirens blew before daylight Nov. 8. I got up, looked out of the window, and saw nothing but a clear, cloudless sky, with no sound of planes or antiaircraft. So I concluded that it was a false alarm, and went back to bed. I dozed off, but came to with the sound of troops running through the streets, so I tumbled out to have another look; and then realized for the first time that there was really something up. It was then light enough...
Doom in the South? At Stalingrad a Red Army correspondent found Russian soldiers walking abroad in the winter daylight, out of their subterranean shelters, commanding whole blocks of shattered buildings and recaptured streets where no German bullets flew. Now, he said, it was the encircled Germans who burrowed into cellars, turned into "bearded beasts" and subsisted on short rations of horse meat. Now it was the Germans who were pressed between Red troops on every side, as the Russians had been pressed between the Germans and the Volga...
...over Yünnanyi, most advanced Jap base inside southwest China, the flyers hit Lashio four times to try to jam the railhead through which supplies flow to the Japs' Salween front. For the first time they jumped on Japanese convoys on the Burma Road in broad daylight, hitting oil dumps in the junction town of Mingmao twice and catching trucks dispersed under trees. They blew up a railroad bridge south of Mandalay...