Word: mariendorf
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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Private Ronald Morris of London said that he saw Mariendorf after an R.A.F. night attack, and "it was a terrible mess." U.S. flyers whose route to the embarkation point lay through Augsburg, Berlin and Hamburg reported that Hamburg was "flat for miles and miles-a shambles." Eight British prisoners reported everything flattened on both sides of the railroad over a two-mile area in Frankfurt...
...Mariendorf, where the big Borsig plant turns out the stuff of war, the flak had brought down a British bomber two years before-it had fallen like a fluttering, glowing leaf into an open field. Now Mariendorf's guns spoke again. High above, the bomb bays opened and the bombs dropped, arching down with a cracking noise while the watchers on the ground ran for shelter and the plant's terrified workers covered their ears...
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