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Duisburg's Fifty-Sixth. On Duisburg in the Ruhr the R.A.F. made its 56th raid. Target: railway and river port facilities in the Rhineland's heart. Luftwaffe night fighters were again up in force and the R.A.F. lost eleven bombers...
...R.A.F. (probably 350 planes) smashed at targets in the bomb alley of the Rhineland, then concentrated on scarred Cologne. Fires could be seen for 20 miles. Eighteen planes were lost...
...raids on single objectives. But there were times when 1,000 planes were banging at different Axis targets. And on the main objectives, the concentration of power was greater than ever before. In a raid on Düsseldorf, less than 700 bombers, by the British account, hammered the Rhineland's great (pop. 539,905) heavy-industry workshop (steel, tools, big guns). But the percentage of four-motored bombers, and probably their over-all total, was greater than Cologne had felt in its devastating 1,130-plane raid. The Air Ministry announced that a greater weight of bombs...
...Polish R.A.F. pilot last week added another marginal note to the record of British understatement. He returned from the Rhineland with his Wellington riddled and four of his crew badly wounded. One lost a foot. "These men are so good," said the Pole after he had landed his flying sieve. "When they are hit they keep still. When I tell them I will get them back, one of them says, 'Hear, hear,' just like they do at public speakings...
...effects upon Nazi morale of swift, unannounced, murderous visits after dark. In their six publicized raids (two on Norway's Lofotens, others on Boulogne, St. Nazaire, Vagsoy), the total damage done could not compare with that achieved by the R.A.F.'s 1,000-plane raid on the Rhineland last week...