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LONDON--U. S. Army Flying Fortresses struck a terrific blow at the German submarine base at Lorient, on the coast of France today and American-built Mustang fighter planes made history by flying all the way to Germany to shoot up the Dortmund-Ems Canal area...
...TIME erred. Lieut. Nicolson was the first fighter pilot, but not the first airman, to get a Victoria Cross in World War II. The first four British airmen who won V. C.s were bomber crewmen: Acting Flight Lieut. Roderick A. Learoyd (attacking a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems canal in the face of heavy point-blank fire); Sergeant Thomas Gray and Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland ("most conspicuous bravery" in wrecking the Albert Canal bridge); Sergeant John Hannah (extinguishing a roaring blaze in a bomber instead of bailing...
Repeatedly in British air communiques appeared such place-names as Essen, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Cologne, "the goods yards at Hamm . . . the Dortmund-Ems Canal." By last week, after hundreds of bomb clusters had been dropped by the R. A. F. into the Ruhr, it would not have been surprising to hear that Germany was speeding the shift of much of its war production to more remote Pomerania, Bohemia, Austria and Silesia, as predicted by Reich Marshal Hermann Goring...
...presence of the enemy." Last week were awarded the seventh, eighth and ninth V.C.s of World War II, for deeds of extraordinary daring: Acting Flight Lieutenant Roderick Learoyd, 27, pilot of one of five Hampden bombers assigned on Aug. 12 to destroy a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems Canal. His story...
...continued its lambasting of their lairs across the Channel. British pilots stalked Germans home to spot their fields for future visits by British bombers. Wherever they saw barges-at Rotterdam, Boulogne, in the River Lys at Armentieres-they poured down bombs. They blasted out a section of the important Dortmund-Ems Canal, to which much traffic has been diverted since the railroad was wrecked...