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...Hamburg. Düsseldorf was the capstone in the week's grim monument of destruction. The bombers' first target was Hamburg. On that factory of submarines and other war machines more than 600 bombers dumped their loads-first tens of thousands of fire bombs, then high explosives shatteringly climaxed by 4,000-lb. "block busters." Two nights later the bombers gave Hamburg more of the horrible same in the pit that was still burning from the first raid...
Saarbrücken. Next night it was Saarbrücken, steel and coal center in the lower Saar basin, 300 miles from Britain's coast. The raid was lighter than the searing blows struck on Hamburg, but the Air Ministry put the bombers in the hundreds...
...Luftwaffe fought stoutly back. Night fighters, with the help of pursuit, shot down 29 bombers at Hamburg in the first raid, 32 in the second, 30 at Düsseldorf. But the British over-all loss was kept below the marginal 5%. And the Germans had their losses, too: nine Focke-Wulf 1905 here, six or seven there...
...Nazis were known to have dispersed their U-boat industry throughout the Reich and occupied territory to evade the R.A.F., breaking up such pre-war building centers as Hamburg, Kiel, Bremen. Relentlessly the R.A.F. has searched out new plants and plastered them with explosives...
...north, the latitude of Hamburg, Bremen and other north German targets, June nights provide the shortest hours of protective darkness, the fewest nights when cloud conditions are suitable (i.e., neither perfectly clear nor thickly blanketed). In fact, if weather and clock were allowed to control air operations from Britain, there could never be a second air front in Europe. Now the R.A.F. is shaking off the shackles, risking more in order to achieve more...