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High among the puffy white clouds over Kiel both the pilot and co-pilot of the B-17 Worry Wart were knocked out. Below-zero cold froze the pilot's hands and feet. The co-pilot was dead, a 20-mm. shell through his breast. Ugly flak blossoms unfolded on all sides. In & out among the clouds darted droves of enemy fighters. Worry Wart's chances of getting back to England were next to zero...
...Americans' next major blow was a double raid from which 26 bombers did not return-the heaviest loss yet suffered by U.S. bombers in Britain. One force was sent out over Kiel. This raid drew off most of the Luftwaffe's fighters and precipitated one of the greatest air battles of World War II. The other, larger force raided Bremen comparatively unhindered...
...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 be destroyed...
...tightened up. The news in Berlin was bad. The Axis was losing North Africa. Italy, always uncertain, was growing more uncertain as the threat of invasion increased. Göring's Luftwaffe had failed to twist the neck of the thunderbird that nested in England and clawed at Kiel, Antwerp, Cologne, Paris, Essen, Berlin. Some 90,000 people had been, removed from industrial Essen's shattered, scattered homes. War labor was at a premium; war widows were ordered into the factories...
...British fired the shipyards, coal, iron, lumber and cement center of Kiel. Pathfinder planes overcame poor visibility by dropping hundreds of flares. The bombers followed with 4,000 tons of explosive-more hell than Kiel had caught in any of the previous 69 raids. Ten planes failed to return...