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...bare statistics were awesome. From the beginning of U.S. air operations in Europe through the end of this October, the heavy bombers of the Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces had dropped 638,880 tons of explosives on German targets; more than half of the total had gone to the Reich homeland. Bombers and fighters together had destroyed 15,210 German planes. And all this was entirely apart from the operations of the Ninth and Twelfth (Tactical) U.S. Air Forces, or of the R.A.F., which flexed its muscles this week with a smashing 3,088 ton assault on oil refineries near...
Nevertheless the momentum of war was so inexorably against them that their plight was worse than ever. The air offensive against the Reich was stepping up to new levels of destruction; the Luftwaffe could challenge only at intervals, and every time it did, it got its ears pinned back. On one flaming day of battle last week the German air force lost 208 planes...
...Germans could not hold everywhere : their collapse in Hungary meant that the Danube approach to Austria had become a fourth crusher point against the Reich (see map). Eisenhower in the west and Stalin in the east had the superiority in manpower, material and generalship to wear out the enemy quickly when they brought their full weight to bear...
From the ruins of Aachen last week emerged a man who was willing, if not eager, to run the first non-Nazi city in the Reich. Herr X (the U.S. Army censorship withheld his name) agreed to be Aachen's first post-Hitler, democratic mayor. Of Aachen's 166,000 residents, only 3,000 remained, only 24 were deemed trustworthy, only five were willing to take...
...Army confidently expected no further repetitions of World War I's East Prussian history. In 1914 the team of Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, his brilliant chief of staff General Erich Ludendorff and chief of operations General Max Hoffmann had gone to the rescue of the Reich's defeated army, and made Hindenburg an immortal among Junkers. Among East Prussia's lakes Hindenburg trapped the Russians, cut them to pieces...