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Through the raid Berlin's great antiaircraft defenses thundered in the night. But strong as they still were, they had apparently been reduced in strength to beef up the defenses of the Ruhr. Also it seemed that the gunners were not alertly on the job. Britain lost only one bomber. When the R.A.F. crews gathered, teacups in hand, for their interrogations back home, they agreed that few night fighters had come up to meet them...
...Berlin's 54th raid of the war, "Red" Harris had picked up the task he had pledged himself to resume. Next night his bombers were back again. But this time Berlin was waiting and there were night fighters, apparently drafted from the Ruhr, where they could ill be spared. And moonlight (instead of clouds as on the night before) gave them better opportunities. That night the R.A.F. lost 22 planes...
Unhappy Valleys. On eight of eleven successive nights in the new year, the R.A.F. had bashed the Ruhr, plowing through the strongest anti-aircraft defenses the world has ever seen. In "Happy Valley," the R.A.F.'s ironic label for the industrial heart of the Reich, few bombs had been wasted, for the factories and foundries lie cheek by jowl for miles. And on their edges are the windowless homes of the Ruhr workers. Their nights were shattered, their work was impaired even when they went back to jobs in plants that had escaped blockbusters and incendiaries...
...raiding force unofficially estimated at 150 and including some of Britain's biggest bombers, fought its way through bad weather on route to the Ruhr, but found only a light haze over Essen...
LONDON--The Royal Air Force launched its 1943 bombing offensive against Germany last night with an attack on targets in the industrial Ruhr...