Word: emden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Air Force returned to Germany last week. Target: Emden's oft-bombed U-boat yards. As usual, the exact effects on the bomb target were unknown. But the effect on the Luftwaffe was terrific: some 500 Fortresses and Liberators shot down 117 German fighters; escorting U.S. fighters shot down 21 more. U.S. loss: 17 bombers, three fighters...
...record was an argument for daytime precision bombing. It was also a lesson in the limitations of all bombing: many a city and installation (Emden, Hüls), supposedly devastated, was still a going target for more & more bombings. Highlights...
...Boat Construction: Attacks on 13 yards, accounting for 80% of production. Hamburg (three yards) most severely, Kiel (three yards) and Vegesack all heavily damaged; Wilhelmshaven (considerably), Flensburg (lightly), Danzig (two yards), Bremen and Emden all negligibly...
...offensive threat. Since the outbreak of the war the German Fleet has been whittled from 18 major warships to a fighting six. They are: the pocket battleship Lutzow, the 26,000-ton battleship Scharnhorst, the never-in-action aircraft carrier Graf Zeppelin, the three light cruisers Nurnberg, Leipzig and Emden...
Thunderbolt (Republic P-47). First fought in the European Theater only a few months ago on a large scale, the turbosupercharged P47 is a hard-hitting, high-altitude specialist. Heavy as the familiar Ford trimotor, it has been used almost exclusively as a long-range bomber escort (as at Emden). Bombers run into comparatively little trouble when P-475 are escorting. The P-475 themselves, against German fighters, knocked down 5.8 German aircraft to every P47 that was lost in one recent month. Its overall ratio, from a fairly unimpressive start...