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...sacrifice." Indirectly, he testified to the destruction wrought upon Germany by the night-bombers of the R.A.F. the day-bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. Matter-of-factly, as though there were no point in further denial, he referred to "the ruins of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Kassel" and of "all other towns, great and small," which have been damaged. Said he: "If millions of people no longer possess anything to lose, they can only gain something...
Single-Engine Aircraft Construction: Focke-Wulf assembly and component plants hit at Bremen (considerable damage, plant abandoned), Kassel (one considerable, one negligible), Oschersleben (light), Warnemunde (light), Marienburg (devastated), Anklam (most severe); Messerschmitt 109G plants severely damaged at Regensburg and Wiener-Neustadt; Paris Renault plant heavily damaged...
...Eder and Ruhr, where the dams were blasted by the mines, there was terrible destruction. The waters of the Eder, released by the breaching of the Eder Dam, had swept the valley bare, flooding the airfield at Fritzlar, sweeping through farms and villages beyond the industrial town of Kassel, which was partly inundated (see map). The Ruhr, swollen as if by a tidal wave from the blasting of the Möhne and the Sorpe dams, had flooded town after town...
Since June 1, Allied raiders have visited Europe on an average of almost every other night. Most of these were 200-300 plane raids. The London Times claimed that the battering of such important railway towns as Kassel, Nürnberg, Osnabrück and Mainz, of such rail centers as Cologne, has forced the Germans to use barge canals and coastal waters. Last month, announcing that R.A.F. bombers were dropping 8,000-lb. blockbusters, the Air Ministry declared that photographs showed 270 acres of Karlsruhe and 370 acres of Düsseldorf laid waste. Other cities have been blasted...
...effort. Bomber Commanders Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris and Major General Carl Spaatz were doing what they could with what they had-and it was no mean bomb tonnage. The R.A.F. Bomber Command threw its big punches at night. It hurled a great 600-plane raid at Kassel (locomotives, aircraft, engines), ranged 900 miles northeast to Gdynia to strike at submarines under repair. Another night it was over Nürnberg (diesel engines for submarines, planes, tanks) and the steel center at Saarbrücken. Again it was an airdrome in Belgium, docks at Ostend, power stations...