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That night the R.A.F. loosed the heaviest air raid in history. Upon Germany's northern port of Hamburg, 2,300 tons of bombs fell. Lost: twelve bombers, a low price to pay for the ruin reported by the Germans. London heard a Nazi broadcaster the next morning: "The view over the Alster [famed lake at Hamburg's center] was a terrible sight today. Smoke rose from all burning houses. The tower of the town hall stood in flames. Every minute delayed-action bombs exploded. The Opera House has been burned out and all world-famous entertainment places destroyed...
...four daylight raids on Germany and three on Occupied France, the Eighth Air Force dropped "between 2,000 and 3,000 tons." (Correspondents thought it was nearer 3,000 tons.) Heaviest U.S. load on a single target: 500 tons, concentrated on a synthetic rubber plant...
...front as a whole the Russians outnumber the Axis. According to a nonofficial estimate from London last week, the Red Army has some 265 divisions disposed along or immediately behind the front, with its heaviest forces massed south of Moscow against a still heavier concentration. The precise strengths and dispositions of those forces are unknown, but the map on p. 25 represents the best guesses available last week...
Salamaua, a tadpole-shaped peninsula, is only ten miles from Mubo. It is now scarcely tenable by the Japanese. Its occupation would bring the Allies within 21 miles of the important Jap base at Lae. At week's end Allied bombers gave Lae one of its heaviest poundings since the war began...
...Because racial prejudice is attributed to Americans, "in the East our prestige has already suffered so greatly [no] military victory will restore it. ... We consent to the heaviest of taxes for military warfare but we are not willing to treat the Chinese as we treat the British...