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Berlin, Munich, Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Essen-everywhere the wings of the R.A.F. shadowed the moon and destruction followed for the Herrenvolk below...
...raiding force unofficially estimated at 150 and including some of Britain's biggest bombers, fought its way through bad weather on route to the Ruhr, but found only a light haze over Essen...
...Silent Passengers. Actual damage to the Nazis' precariously balanced economy (see p. 27) has never been reliably assessed. Back from a visit to Germany last summer, a Swiss correspondent reported that he had found little damage to the Krupp works at Essen or to other German armament industries...
...plane. If 100 bombers are over the target the ratio is one gun per plane. Damage to anti-aircraft equipment by bombs and blast interference with radio equipment is also a factor. R.A.F. losses through 1941 averaged 10% per raid, on a long series of small raids. The Cologne, Essen, Bremen mass raids, involving between 400 and 1,000 planes, reduced the loss factor to an average of 4% per raid...
...parcel of the Battle of the 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...