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...airmen working with them never intended 1942 to be decisive; they intended it only to be a test. The measure of this test was the extent and nature of the German target-a scattered conglomeration of cities, varying from the industrial concentrations of the Ruhr to the ports of Hamburg and Bremen, the naval bases of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. The R.A.F. and the U.S. Air Forces have calculated the minimum damage necessary to bring a decision. This calculation is secret. Unofficially, the view of airmen is that one-third to one-half of Germany's industrial establishment must...
...their same technique on the philosophies of death and immortality, the effect is not the same. Saroyan's message, as simple as the child Ulysses, can't be spread on with a thick butter knife; the film emerges a combination of a House sandwich and a snack in Hamburg Heaven. It's worth seeing, if only for the better scenes...
...R.A.F. continued its methodical, cold-blooded experiments with raids on Essen, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin. Raids by 250 planes or less did not have the necessary effect. Then, in May, 1,047 planes hit Cologne, fourth-largest German city, with 1,500 tons of explosives, thousands of incendiaries. The result was "staggering." But, said the report, Cologne did not prove that the destruction of Germany was within present Allied power. "It emphasized the distance between the existing force and the force required for victory...
Slowdown for Knockout. A substantial section of the Luftwaffe has been pinned in Western Europe. The catalogue of German factories, shipyards, railway centers and power plants smashed by the R.A.F. is impressive. Damage to morale in such often-visited cities as Hamburg, Bremen and Cologne must have been severe. Still Germany fights...
...many times a day or a week someone tells his "Mama" in Berlin or Hamburg that "little Kurt" is all right and will leave the hospital next Wednesday, no one knows. But Allied authorities think that too frequently "Mama" is the German Navy, "little Kurt" is an Allied ship loading in some South American harbor with goods for the U.S. or Britain. Many ships have gone down just after leaving port; for Nazi U-boats, South American waters are a fruitful hunting ground...