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Promptly the Gestapo clapped a price of 1,000,000 marks on the head of Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, longtime Oberbürger-meister (Lord Mayor) of Leipzig, and Price Controller of the Reich under Brüming and again in the first years of Nazidom. A confidant of industrialists, old Reichswehr officers and big-shot civil servants, Goerdeler was linked with" a nationalist underground involving Financial Wizard Hjalmar Schacht. Goerdeler vanished on the day the Gestapo tried to pick him up. This might be a sign of the extent and organization of the anti-Nazi group. But in the dissolving...
...tanks southwest of Rouen. The biggest European air combat since D-day was stirred up late in the week when 1,100 U.S. heavy bombers and 750 fighter escorts flew over Central Germany and attacked a string of industrial targets, including eleven refineries and synthetic oil plants grouped around Leipzig...
...weight and speed (see chart). The record of sorties flown in a single day by Allied planes rose to 8,000. The greatest U.S. air fleet ever launched on a single mission sent 1,000 heavy bombers and 1,200 fighters against three synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. This was air power in force to fit the fondest visions of Mitchell and Douhet-and more accurately employed than they had even dreamed in their...
Reconnaissance flyers reported snow over the Leipzig area. But the big bombers took off on schedule that February morning. By the time they began their target runs over Leipzig's aircraft plants, it was sparklingly clear. For five more days the skies around Leipzig were blue and the ground was blackened by Allied bombs. The Air Forces weatherman had been dead right...
...Take-Off. On the first day a fleet of U.S. heavy Fortresses and Liberators, covered by 1,000 fighters, roared out from Britain to launch the big push against the aircraft centers of Leipzig, blasted the night before by 1,000 R.A.F. bombers, Oschersleben,. Gotha, Bernburg, Brunswick, Halberstadt, Tutow, and even faraway Posen in conquered Poland. That night the massive Lancasters and Halifaxes of the R.A.F. trundled out to shower down 2,240 tons of bombs in a raid on Stuttgart over 450 miles from London...