Word: rostockize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's bombing of Lubeck, its blasting of Rostock, its raids last, week on Kiel and Trondheim, its repeated daytime raids on Occupied France were not like the raids which the R.A.F. had made intermittently and hit-or-missly for two years. This was the Business. It differed in technique and, above all, it differed in scale from all British bombing that went before. It compared with Hitler's blitz on Britain in the fall of 1940 -only it was bigger...
...R.A.F.'s technique is new in other respects. Instead of trying for pinpoint targets and bringing bombs home if they cannot be found, the R.A.F. is now going after the whole industrial districts of towns like Rostock, which they hit four nights in succession (TIME, May 4). Moreover the weight of bombs dropped on Rostock because of bigger planes and repeat visits was 800 tons compared to the 530 tons dropped on Coventry...
Reconnaissance photos made after the raids on Rostock and Lübeck indicate that this is at least partially the case. They show enormous destruction. Travelers on an airliner from London to Stockholm reported they had seen the red glare of Rostock's flames for 250 miles across the Baltic...
Triphammers' Trips. After the Lübeck and Rostock raids the four-motored bombers swung into Norway, turned up with 75 heavy bombers over Trondheim, where the Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen are holed up. Under a bright bomber's moon, the raiders went after another target -a big submarine base just completed after two years of work by Danish vassal labor. Few days later the returns came in from agents in Sweden: two years had been wasted. The base was reported a ruin...
Most pulverizing British air attack since the R.A.F. punished the Baltic port of Lübeck in March occurred at another Baltic port, Rostock, 60 miles away. In one hour one night British airmen dropped the "greatest weight of bombs" ever delivered in one package by the R.A.F. The following night the British were back again. The night after that, and the night after that, they were back yet again & again. When they left they were certain that it would be a long time before Rostock, staggering under the weight of 800 tons of bombs, would function efficiently...