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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY: Achtung, Achtung . . . | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Case for Precision | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: The Case for Precision | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Negative Nuisance | 10/25/1943 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: REPORT | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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