Word: ls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record was an argument for daytime precision bombing. It was also a lesson in the limitations of all bombing: many a city and installation (Emden, Hüls), supposedly devastated, was still a going target for more & more bombings. Highlights...
...four daylight raids on Germany and three on Occupied France, the Eighth Air Force dropped "between 2,000 and 3,000 tons." (Correspondents thought it was nearer 3,000 tons.) Heaviest U.S. load on a single target: 500 tons, concentrated on a synthetic rubber plant at Hüls...
...precision bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force paid their first visit to the Ruhr. They found and destroyed the carefully camouflaged plant at Hüls where the Germans manufactured a fifth of their synthetic rubber. On other days they flew into northeastern Germany and into Occupied France, had weather trouble and less luck with their ground targets. But against their secondary target, they had better luck: in two great air battles over Germany they reduced the German fighter force by nearly 100 planes...