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...weather was right, the R.A.F. was ready, and Bremen caught 75 minutes of bombers' hell. On aircraft plants, dockyards and submarine works fell the same destruction which blanketed Cologne and Essen earlier. The British said that the 52 planes which did not return were less than 5% of the armada; ergo, more than 1,000 bombers had assaulted Bremen...
...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...
...change, not only the scale, but the nature of aerial warfare-just as the Greek phalanx changed the nature of 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...
...Army Air Forces was in London during these raids. With the accretion of U.S. planes flown by U.S. crews, Air Marshal Harris can increase the intensity of his raids. Though it would probably take a while to repeat often such raids as those on Cologne and Essen, an R.A.F. spokesman said last week: "A thousand planes nightly is not the ultimate peak. There is no reason why another thousand should not attack a second target in Germany at the same time, or follow the first thousand on to the same target...
...gave up 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...