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...Sept. 30 his planes had bombed objectives in over 200 towns. Concentrating on the Rhine Valley and the northern ports, British bombers blazed a path down the western rim of Germany, returning to key cities again & again. Freight yards and oil depots at Mannheim were bombed 16 times, oil refineries and an aircraft factory at Frankfort on the Main twelve times, the Krupp works in Essen 16 times. At Cologne and Soest, railways, munitions works, chemical plants were attacked 29 times. Even heavier were the raids on the ports of Bremen, Wilhelmshaven, Kiel and Hamburg. Wherever there were railroad junctions...
...citizens to impress any politician were actively worried about two related problems: 1) the increase in their taxes, 2) the steady increase in the national debt after all the U. S. Government's tax collections. But when Hitler pushed back the U. S. frontier from the Rhine to the English Channel, these problems were swept aside by a single burning demand-Total Defense. To emergency-conscious U. S. citizens, the job presented itself as one of planes, tanks, guns, not their cost. But to businessmen and economists, one question remained: how to finance Total Defense...
...years. Repeated bombings of the same place time after time, until repairs are discouraged and the place and its function abandoned, are the kind of bombings that stick. The British pattern for Germany was unvaried for more than four months. Concentrated in the coal-seamed Ruhr district between the Rhine and Ems Rivers was a high percentage of Germany's war industry-synthetic oil, steel, chemicals, munitions-and important transport arteries into the occupied areas of the Lowlands and France...
...port and naval facilities of northeast Germany formed another natural group of targets for the British, who had only to find Germany's broad river,mouths at night to bomb Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel. The upper reaches of the Rhine and the Main guided them to Frankfort, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Waldshut. On the Weser lie Gottingen, Kassel, Rotenburg-all aircraft centres. On the Saale, tributary of the Elbe, were the big synthetic oil works of Leuna, the Zeiss instrument works at Jena...
...Said the Manchester Guardian complacently: "It is almost certain that there are not 50 large transports in the Scheldt at present. . . . The slow-moving barges [from the Rhine] would take from 24 to 46 hours to make the crossing from Antwerp to Dover or to Hull, and as there would be hundreds of them they could hardly hope to escape detection. . . . They would cover so much sea area that our outpost vessels must run into them." The Guardian took comfort in the belief that the harbors at Boulogne, Calais, Zeebrugge and the Hook of Holland are so clogged with...