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Last week the British gave a good demonstration of what a "medium-sized show" could be. One night when there was a hint of better ceilings after several days of bad weather, the R.A.F. thundered out across Germany with close to 300 planes. The target was industrial Mannheim (pop. 275,000), railroad-veined center on the upper Rhine. The R.A.F. was after the Daimler-Benz airplane-engine (for Messerschmitts, Dorniers, etc.) works, the Lanz armament plant, the vast Badische chemical works nearby...
...weather took a turn for the worse. Low clouds covered the capital. To drop their bombs the big ships had to break through the clouds, then face heavy anti-aircraft fire. Neither was it good over Cologne and Mannheim. On their way home the planes ran into still worse weather. Sudden storms ripped into the large flights of heavy bombers. Of those assigned to attack Berlin, Cologne, Mannheim, 37 failed to return...
...Adriatic last week a gesture of warning and defiance to the Germans: let them not dare to try smuggling troopships down behind the islands along the Yugoslav coast. The R. A. F. bombed an oil refinery near Venice, aimed at a bridge near Fiume, and repeatedly smashed at Mannheim, a rail junction through which German munitions bound for Italy would pass...
...statue of Venus de Milo was tried for nudity in Mannheim, Germany, and sentenced to prison...
...Sept. 30 his planes had bombed objectives in over 200 towns. Concentrating on the Rhine Valley and the northern ports, British bombers blazed a path down the western rim of Germany, returning to key cities again & again. Freight yards and oil depots at Mannheim were bombed 16 times, oil refineries and an aircraft factory at Frankfort on the Main twelve times, the Krupp works in Essen 16 times. At Cologne and Soest, railways, munitions works, chemical plants were attacked 29 times. Even heavier were the raids on the ports of Bremen, Wilhelmshaven, Kiel and Hamburg. Wherever there were railroad junctions...