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...morning last week the cloud cover over northwest Germany thundered. Over the port of Emden a "pathfinder" squadron of Fortresses eased down from the overcast, planted incendiaries. Flames burst from Emden's factories, clocks, submarine repair shops...
...Atlantic. Since March, when U-boat marauding in the western Atlantic grew intense, the R.A.F had blasted a pattern of destruction through German submarine-building cities, seeking to choke off U-boats at their source. Among them were Augsburg and Cologne (diesel engines), Essen (plates and torpedo tubes), Emden and Bremen (assembly yards), Warnemünde (U-boat training base), Wilhelmshaven and St. Nazaire, France (operational bases...
Weather kept Air Marshal "Ginger" Harris' bombers idling at home most of the week. When the skyways cleared sufficiently, back they went to night-raiding Germany. This time Emden, North Sea port and manufacturing city near the Dutch frontier, got it, two nights in a row, not on the 1,000-plane Cologne-Essen scale, but with "a strong force"-200 to 300 planes. Only seven failed to return...
...foot warfare in its day. Last week Air Marshal Harris' forces were unprecedented. After the Cologne raid (1,130 planes), the R.A.F. swept France (1,000), struck Essen (1,036), swept France (200), bombed Bremen (200), swept the Channel coast (500), revisited the Ruhr (about 200), hit Emden (perhaps 200), and fanned out to smaller objectives (over 2,000). Altogether Air Marshal Harris sent between 6,000 and 7,000 planes over the Continent in eight days' time...
...their aluminum pots, pans and household gewgaws will long remember. That drive finally netted 5,715,536 usable pounds. Most of it kicked around until after Pearl Harbor, when it was finally pulverized into thermite for millions of incendiary bombs, some of which probably smashed down on Essen and Emden last week. At the same time that the old aluminum was at last coming to an honorable end, Manhattan's smart Gimbel Brothers' store was advertising at cut prices a trainload of brand-new aluminum pots & pans still available from pre-war stocks...