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...convinced more & more each day that only by a proper combination of war-making means can we achieve victory in the shortest possible time and with the greatest economy in life. . . . Your adversary may be hammered to his knees by bombing, but he will recover unless the knockout blow is delivered by the ground army...
...They must assume that it will fail to knock out Germany, and that the bombers over Europe are hammering out a prelude to victory by invasion. But the airmen doing the bombing are under no such compulsion. It is now their business, and their inclination, to bomb for a knockout...
...that knockout is delivered from the air this year, its chief author will be Air Chief Marshal Harris. Except perhaps in the last rounds, the chief instrument will be his Bomber Command. His friend and poker foe, General Eaker, is just as much of an airman, and he had a great deal to do with presenting and championing the airmen's proposition. But, in comparison with the R.A.F., the Eighth Air Force and its Bomber Command are still small and young. American bombers first attacked Occupied France last August, first flew into Germany last Jan. 27. The American force...
...close with one more Welcome? Glad to meet Professor De Haas, the knockout lecture, who really puts his audience in the mood for a helluva good week...
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...