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Seven bombers were lost. A gunner on a four-engined Lancaster bomber said he saw his bullets strike a Junkers SS night fighter, but could not confirm that it crashed
*An officially released fact is that the Air Forces are already increasing the bomb capacity of the Fortress from its present two to three tons to more than the eight tons now carried by Britain's great Lancaster bombers.
Last week the R.A.F. tried what it had rejected. Ninety-four Lancaster four-motored planes bombed the Schneider-Creusot gun works (chief works of the famed French trust & munitions cartel) and the Henri Paul power plant in daylight. There was no fighter protection. Only one bomber failed to return.
> The Heinkel 177 is a 35-ton bomber powered by four 1,200-h.p. Hirth air-cooled engines. It is believed to have an eight-ton bomb capacity at normal range (about 500 miles), a top speed of 300 m.p.h.*The presumption is that it would be as effective in...
The above four types have a capacity of some three tons of bombs each at medium radii of between 500 and 1,000 miles. British heavy and medium bombers-the Stirling, Lancaster, Halifax, Wellington, etc.-have the same average radii and in some cases much larger bomb capacities.