Word: dusseldorf
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...bold daylight sweep by British pilots wrestling air initiative from Germany followed announcement of devastating raids extending from Dusseldorf, Germany, to Bordeaux, France, Tuesday night, the biggest and most extensive raids of the past two weeks...
...Potter, Jr. '43, East Grand Raplds, Mich.; John F. Prudden '42, Fostoria, O.; James A. Rafferty '43, Louisville, Ky.; Donald M. Reynolds '42, Manette, Wash.; Kay T. Rogers '42, Appleton, Wis.; William L. Roney, Jr. '42, Winter Park, Fla.; Charles C. Royer '43, Beliefentalne, O.; Reinhold S. Schumann '41, Dusseldorf, Germany; Carl B. Sellgman, '43, Dinuba, Calif.; Judson T. Shaplin '42, Reading, Pa.; Morris V. Sholanski '43, Philadelphia, Pa.; Wheeler Smith '41, Minneapolis, Minn...
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...
Died. Paul Klee, 61, Swiss-born painter; in Berne, Switzerland. His scrawly-scratchy works banned as "Bolshevist art," Artist Klee was forced in 1933 to resign as professor at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, fled Germany...
...raid the British claimed to have wrought havoc over a 200-mile stretch of Rhineland between Dusseldorf and Mann heim. Their special objectives were gasoline tanks and refineries, the fuel supply which Germany needs for her planes and motorized equipment. Such attacks in vited retaliation, but the British knew they would soon be bombed anyhow...