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Poland. More than 500 of Lieut. General James H. Doolittle's Eighth Air Force bombers flew 700 miles from England to hit fighter-producing factories in Posen, Poland. When they turned beyond their targets they were only 300 miles from the Polish battleground where German and Russian troops were fighting...
...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...
More than 2,000 U.S.A.A.F. bombers and fighters, the greatest strike the U.S. has launched, swept in bright daylight across the Channel, hit Leipzig again, hit Oschersleben, hit Gotha, hit Bernburg, hit Brunswick, hit Halberstadt, hit Tutow, hit Posen. It was a big, bewildering show...
Poland festered with misery. Wrote the Reich's governor at Posen to two minor officials: "For us there are no good or bad Poles. We are against all that is Polish. . . ." Bare statistics from Warsaw's ghetto bore eloquent testimony to Poland's suffering. Normally twice as many persons are born in the ghetto as die there each year. In June of this year only 396 were born. Four thousand, two hundred and ninety died...
...public property, ordered him to slice it in half. The general refused. Came men with yardsticks, who found only four of its 14 bushes were in the public domain. The authorities relaxed in silence. ∙ ∙ Adolf Hitler has ordered the former castle of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Posen (part of Poland 1919-39) remodeled, plans to use it himself...