Word: duisburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three months ago an Allied arrival in force on this stretch of the Rhine would have produced the maximum of Nazi consternation. Now, the heavy Allied concentrations at the fulcrum of the whole attack in the west-the Cologne-Duisburg sector -reduced the French arrival on the upper Rhine almost to the status of a diversion...
Only intermittently did the weather hold back the Allied big bombers, which used their hidden-target instruments when necessary to unload through overcast. With Duisburg and Cologne temporarily shattered, the heavies turned their attention to Hamm, Bonn, Mainz, Wiesbaden, Stuttgart, Mannheim and other supply ganglia serving the West Wall. It was an effort to wall off the Rhineland from the interior-just as, in the Battle of France, Allied air power had isolated the fighting area between the Loire and the Seine...
...Summer Tide. The Allies conceded that their counter-measures were so far inadequate. Heavy bombers stormed over submarine repair and construction centers at Wilhelmshaven, Duisburg, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, Vegesack, but with limited success. A recent raid on Vegesack, touted as "possibly the heaviest single blow of the war against U-boat production," resulted in damage to seven of 15 unfinished U-boats. Germany's submarine production, to which all other naval building is subordinate, may be as high as 40 a month; Doenitz may already have upward of 600 raiders in his fleet...
...Duisburg's Fifty-Sixth. On Duisburg in the Ruhr the R.A.F. made its 56th raid. Target: railway and river port facilities in the Rhineland's heart. Luftwaffe night fighters were again up in force and the R.A.F. lost eleven bombers...
From neutral nations reports were even stronger. Vichy ruefully declared that several French ports were completely demolished. Letters from Finland reported that as early as August "Essen and Duisburg were suffering badly from the frequency of air-raid alarms," described the razing of whole blocks in Hamburg...