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...world's press soon concluded that the R.A.F. was out to defeat Germany with bombs in 1942: Cologne, Essen, Bremen flamed under 1,000-plane raids and upwards of 1,000 tons of bombs. Harris had to tell Britons and Americans that such raids could not then be sustained: "That time will come. It may not be long delayed." The raids dropped in weight, but they were still tremendous, and more & more of the bombers were four-engined Halifaxes, Stirlings and the new Lancasters. The first Americans arrived in Britain, and Harris took the air to tell the Germans...
...will get several times 1942's 37,000 tons. In February, March and April the R.A.F. dropped an average of at least 10,000 tons of bombs on German objectives each month. In the last week of May, in four raids on Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen and Wuppertal, the R.A.F. dropped about 6,500 tons. Said Sir Arthur after Dortmund got its packet of 2,000 tons: "In 1939 Göring promised that not a single enemy bomb would reach the Ruhr. Congratulations on having delivered the first 100,000 tons on Germany to refute...
...Berlin was bad. The Axis was losing North Africa. Italy, always uncertain, was growing more uncertain as the threat of invasion increased. Göring's Luftwaffe had failed to twist the neck of the thunderbird that nested in England and clawed at Kiel, Antwerp, Cologne, Paris, Essen, Berlin. Some 90,000 people had been, removed from industrial Essen's shattered, scattered homes. War labor was at a premium; war widows were ordered into the factories...
...R.A.F. continued its methodical, cold-blooded experiments with raids on Essen, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin. Raids by 250 planes or less did not have the necessary effect. Then, in May, 1,047 planes hit Cologne, fourth-largest German city, with 1,500 tons of explosives, thousands of incendiaries. The result was "staggering." But, said the report, Cologne did not prove that the destruction of Germany was within present Allied power. "It emphasized the distance between the existing force and the force required for victory...
...Essen, city of some 700,000 people, which turned out precise and coldly beautiful machinery of war, was gasping with a thousand wounds. A single lightning raid, the R.A.F. reported, had razed the entire center of the city early last week, wrecked 75% of the giant Krupp arms factories (TIME, March 15). More than 450 acres of buildings, plants, machinery and human dwellings were in ruins. A week later the bombers came again, hit even harder with more than 1 ,000 tons of bombs...