Word: merseburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Again. Last fortnight the Germans picked a day to fight-putting up 500 fighters over one target alone, the Merseburg oil plants in central Germany-and they knocked down 40 U.S. bombers, 19 escorts. But they lost 208 planes of their own. Since then, they have made only occasional, feeble feints...
...Dropped one million tons of bombs on enemy targets (the one-millionth mark was reached during a raid on an oil refinery in Merseburg-Leuna on Sept. 28). The rate for one "recent" month was 4,400 tons per day, or three tons a minute...
This was the biggest formation ever seen of the biggest plane in the war, the Merseburg-323. The ME-323 was developed from designs for a monstrous wooden glider, with a wing span of 180 feet. Six French Gnôme-Rhône engines were added to make a plane that would carry 120 fully equipped soldiers or 20,000 Ib. of freight 450 miles at 140 miles an hour. It has ten half-sunk wheels well forward to prevent nosing over in rough landings, and the front of its fuselage can let down to take in trucks...
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