Word: reichs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether the Germans intended the little blitz as a strategic move, propaganda to bolster the Reich home front, or as a demonstration that there are still anti-invasion bombers, London was again becoming blitz-minded. Dinner guests took along their helmets, began to refer to the 1940-41 bombings as "the last...
...Force flicked a feint at Berlin with P-38 Lightning fighters. Next day the Eighth threw a half-punch. Heavy bombers raided targets in eastern Germany and one formation of Fortresses dropped bombs on the Berlin district, for the first U.S. raid on the battered capital of the Reich...
News about conditions in the Reich came from U.S. newpapermen who had concluded an involuntary 13-month assignment in swanky Baden-Baden. They had been caught with U.S. diplomats and relief workers when the Nazis marched into Vichy. Now, exchanged for Germans and Frenchmen interned in the U.S., they were sailing home from Lisbon...
Photo reconnaissance indicated that 80% of Germany's twin-engined fighter-plane production had been knocked out; 60% of her single-engined production is gone. In addition the raids destroyed 25% of the Reich's heavy-bomber building capacity, and 60% of transport production. Strategic bombing officials believe that if the victory is followed up, the Luftwaffe cannot make up its losses...
...many a British and U.S. citizen with no professional interest in the proof of air power, this was not entirely bad news, if true. Repatriated U.S. citizens-newsmen, diplomats stranded in Vichy, et al-returning from the Reich last week gave no encouragement to the happy thesis that Germany was going to fall on her face this year...