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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...
...would need the bulk of its strength on the eastern front. That put a bigger load than ever on the anti-aircraftsmen.. Yet the cities the Russians now bombed could not have adequate defenses, for the defenses were needed elsewhere. Chiefly they were needed in the tight Ruhr rectangle (15 miles wide and 35 miles long), where 51% of German industry is still concentrated...
Even concentrated there the defenses were not enough. Last week the R.A.F. kept at the Ruhr, hit Saarbrüken (pop. 131,000) with 200-300 planes in what the conservative British Air Ministry called a raid "of outstanding success." Another night the heavy bombers swung farther east to Karlsruhe, on the upper Rhine, unloaded 200 or more bomb bays 450 miles from home, on one of the Reich's great locomotive-building centers. Still another night, Bremen, one of the targets of the three 1,000-plane raids of early summer, caught it hot & heavy...
...foul and squally, the birds of the R.A.F. continued to soar back and forth across the Channel. Night after night, R.A.F. crews flew to Germany, dropped their bombs on the Ruhr...
...took a terrible licking. Feasible because Britain's newest four-motored bombers, snub-nosed Lancasters, could get up enough speed, carrying several tons of bombs, to raid Germany and return with conservative losses. On three successive days last week Lancasters and slower, longer-ranged Sterlings swept over the Ruhr to paste steel mills, factories, electric plants and other industries that feed Hitler's armies. Bombers flying singly made the first two raids; a mass of bombers in formation made the third...