Word: essene
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...tons on Berlin, Frankfort, Brunswick and other industrial targets. U.S. heavy bombers attacked on six of the seven days of the week. R.A.F. heavies dropped a record load of 3,360 tons on Frankfort; two nights later they dropped 2,800 tons on Berlin, then 2,240 tons on Essen...
...Power? Good. But the British said there was nothing left of Hamburg and then had to bomb it 119 additional times. The military works are underground. Essen? Hitler is a fool if he hasn't moved the Krupp works underground into Austria, and left empty factories for the bombers. . . . There'll be 6,000,000 fighting men underground when we reach Japan...
...Wehrmacht was falling back in what might yet be its worst defeat. Nazi bastions which a month ago were safely in the rear were now in peril. Taganrog, Yelnya, Sumy and Konotop had fallen. Smolensk, Poltava, Mariupol and Stalino (which Berlin once possessively hailed as "Russia's Essen") awaited the Red blow. For many, the blow might come within days...
Next day U.S. bombers followed the R.A.F. over Hamburg, also bombed shipyards at Kiel, aircraft and other war factories in two Baltic towns near ravaged Rostock. That night the R.A.F. gave Essen its biggest raid (2,000 tons) and U.S. bombers were again awing during the following...
...giant Krupp's 300 buildings in the Essen region, 200 were so badly damaged as to force complete shutdowns. Virtual demolition of one truck-assembly plant probably cost the German Army between 750 and 1,000 trucks. A large locomotive shop was destroyed by fire, which means that by September the Nazis will be missing about 150 badly needed locomotives which they might otherwise have...