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Louder in the ears of the Italians was the ominous roar and rattle of the Allied military machine in North Africa. Virtually splitting their eardrums were the scream and crump of "blockbuster" bombs devastating the great industrial cities of Turin, Genoa, Milan...
...raids, three on successive nights, have "completely devastated" one 27-acre area and another of 20 acres in the heart of Genoa, which lies in an amphitheater facing the sea. The main railway stations have been smashed, the great Genoa harbor knocked out as an effective supply port. Fascists claimed the bombers invariably hit only ancient shrines and churches, including Santo Stefano where Christopher Columbus was baptized. A mass evacuation of civilians wildly fighting for train passage indicated houses, military targets and morale had all been struck...
...point up the offensive plans of the Allies in the Mediterranean theater, British bombers last week took the high road to Italy over the Alps, blasted the great port of Genoa with many two-ton bombs. They made the 1,400-mile round trip on two successive nights, left 27 acres of the dock area, large parts of the industrial and business sections in flaming ruins. The Air Ministry termed the attacks "Genoa's heaviest of this...
Wave after wave, altogether some 200 planes, roared across the famed port. A communique admitted that near panic in a public shelter helped swell casualties to 354 killed, 3000 injured. To Genoa, pockmarked with ruins, rushed little King Vittorio Emanuele III, 72, and large Queen Elena, to bolster Italian morale...
...British gave the Italians no rest. On three successive nights they made the 1,400-mile round trip to Italy's industrial north. They hammered again at battered Genoa. They pounded Turin, home of the royal arsenal. They made a daylight raid at Milan, which they visited again at night, dropping more bombs into the widespread fires. It was the heaviest, and most businesslike, aerial plastering Italy had got since the war began, and it would probably continue. British losses in the three days: eleven planes...