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...R.A.F. lost 271 aircraft in the month's operations over Germany and occupied territory, while the Germans lost only 100 over Britain and western Europe. Though there were only two 1,000-plane raids (on the Ruhr June 1, on Bremen June 25), the Bomber Command was far from idle. It carried through 16 raids on German objectives and 33 on occupied territory, some of them sweeps by 300 or more planes. July got off to a poorer start. Until the shipbuilding port of Wilhelmshaven was attacked last week, German soil had six raid-free days...
Born in the small town of Rhaunen, near Germany's Ruhr Basin, Kahn arrived in the U.S. as a gangling boy of twelve. Son of an impoverished smalltown Rabbi who peddled fruit for a living on Detroit's streets, young Albert seemed destined to be an infant prodigy musician. But the vicissitudes of fruit peddling made it necessary for young Albert to enter the offices of a Detroit architect as office boy. He was fired from the job because he smelled too strongly of his father's horse, whom he dutifully curried every...
...phalanx changed the nature of foot warfare in its day. Last week Air Marshal Harris' forces were unprecedented. After the Cologne raid (1,130 planes), the R.A.F. swept France (1,000), struck Essen (1,036), swept France (200), bombed Bremen (200), swept the Channel coast (500), revisited the Ruhr (about 200), hit Emden (perhaps 200), and fanned out to smaller objectives (over 2,000). Altogether Air Marshal Harris sent between 6,000 and 7,000 planes over the Continent in eight days' time...
...numbers which correspondents computed by hundreds, the R.A.F. swept by day and swatted by night. Italy's faraway golden triangle - Turin, Milan, Genoa-was bombed nonstop from England. Augsburg in Bavaria, another distant target, was bombed daringly by day. The Ruhr got it two nights. Hamburg was pasted. But the real noise and numbers were the daylight sweeps along the French coast and the invasion ports-Lorient, Le Havre, St. Nazaire, Cherbourg, Dunkirk, Calais, Rouen, carried out mainly by Spitfire-protected Hurricanes, converted to carry light bombs and nicknamed Hurribombers. One day more than 400 planes went over...
Thousands of Frenchmen, he noted, have been forcibly transferred to the Ruhr, to be replaced by German workers who hope to be safe in French factories, and large amounts of war material, he emphasized, are being manufactured in German occupied French factories...