Word: leipzig
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...Switzerland, then in Germany; and he lived and worked in Germany as a New York Times correspondent for years-all through the shame of Munich and the ravaging of Poland, the fall of France and the blitz of Britain. In fact, his mother and three sisters were caught in Leipzig when Hitler declared war on America-went through three of the heaviest bombings there ("The house was like rubber, bending back and forth, the floor rising up and down like waves...
...beaches, Allied air forces had started their offensive. Under cover of a long spell of bad weather, German war plants had bounded back into high production, and a battered Luftwaffe was not only recovering but expanding fast when, on Feb. 20, Allied airmen struck. For five days bombers pounded Leipzig, Bernburg, Brunswick, Oschersleben, Regensburg, Augsburg, Furth, Stuttgart. "We lost 244 heavy bombers and 33 fighting planes." But-'"those five days changed the history of the air war." German aircraft plants never recovered from the aerial onslaught...
...last week 1,250 U.S. heavies, escorted by 1,000 fighters, bombed four synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. Only a dozen German fighters were seen, and four of these were shot down; but the flak was the thickest and deadliest that U.S. crews had ever encountered. "Flak burst in a mass," said one radioman, "a forest of it so dense that we could only get occasional glimpses of the formations ahead of us. It was a solid wall at the target...
...Nazis were said to have stripped the ack-ack guns from ruined cities, e.g., Berlin, to reinforce the oil sites. In any event, Leipzig was more viciously defended from the ground than Berlin had ever been. Eighty-six U.S. planes failed to get back to their bases. Some landed safely elsewhere, but at week's end 40 bombers and 13 fighters were still missing...
...friend, Walter Miller, now 80 and professor emeritus at the University of Missouri, revised and finished it. An odor of honorable mustiness, of philology and old German texts, clung round the generation of U.S. classicists to which these men, with their degrees from Göttingen and Leipzig, belonged. Good translation, or even a reasonable fluency at writing English, were not among its ambitions. But Smith and Miller achieved a good translation. Their Iliad is published without scholarly notes or impediments and with Flaxman's beautiful 18th-Century drawings as illustrations...