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...well as stop Vi. The targets were significant: the experimental stations at Peenemünde and Zinnowitz on the wooded Baltic coast (R.A.F. attacks there a year ago were officially credited with having delayed V-1 by six months); robot-parts plants at Friedrichshafen and Memmingen in southwest Germany; unnamed factories turning out special fuels for pilotless bombs; storage points in France and Germany for bombs and fuels. Part of the strategic pattern was a concentrated blasting of the Bayerische Motorenwerke (Munich), which makes robot propulsion engines. It was reported four-fifths destroyed...
...northern and eastern Germany from Britain. As the Allies move into southern Europe, no part of Germany need be spared. North Italian airdromes, bombed last week, may soon be bases for the bombing of Germany. Already R.A.F. Lancasters are shuttling from Britain to North Africa and back (they bombed Friedrichshafen in southern Germany last month, Bologna and Leghorn in northern Italy last week). From north & south, Allied air power is mounting...
...raids fell upon steel and tin mills, munitions works, coal piles and chemical plants in the broken Ruhr, and crews noted that the once-perpetual haze from factory chimneys no longer thickened the night over Germany's industrial valley. Once the night bombers hit the radar works at Friedrichshafen, flew to North Africa over a route free of Nazi fighters, then struck the Italian navy yards at La Spezia on the way home...
...entered the great Chancellery hall lined with servants dressed in silver braid, blue coats, red vests, black silk knee breeches. The Führer received seven of the delegation. Their program in Germany was to include visits to the Limes Line, the Krupp works and the Zeppelin plant at Friedrichshafen, and a short ride on a German warship as the guest of Reich Commander in Chief of the Navy Admiral Eric Raeder...
...small squad of French planes attacked the Zeppelin works at Friedrichshafen, with possible damage to an aircraft factory...