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...Scottish Lowland and ends in Upper Silesia. On it or close to it are strewn the maroon areas of mining districts and the red areas of manufacturing-the English Midlands, South Wales, northern France, Belgium's Sambre-Meuse Valley, Holland's Limburg, the Saar, the Ruhr, middle Germany. Lesser mining and manufacturing areas are scattered in other quarters of Europe but neither in area nor in productive capacity are they of comparable significance...
...looked last week as if two for one was understatement. The R. A. F. had previously boasted that the Ruhr industrial district was pulverized-except for a few blast furnaces which were left as beacons on the highroad to Berlin. But, by comparison with German attacks on Britain, the R. A. F. effort looked pale. One rough day last week the R. A. F. did not go out over Germany at all, yet the Luftwaffe was still in evidence over London. R. A. F. might be more scrupulous, but on the average it could scarcely be more successful than Luftwaffe...
...might run on for years. Repeated bombings of the same place time after time, until repairs are discouraged and the place and its function abandoned, are the kind of bombings that stick. The British pattern for Germany was unvaried for more than four months. Concentrated in the coal-seamed Ruhr district between the Rhine and Ems Rivers was a high percentage of Germany's war industry-synthetic oil, steel, chemicals, munitions-and important transport arteries into the occupied areas of the Lowlands and France...
Repeatedly in British air communiques appeared such place-names as Essen, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Cologne, "the goods yards at Hamm . . . the Dortmund-Ems Canal." By last week, after hundreds of bomb clusters had been dropped by the R. A. F. into the Ruhr, it would not have been surprising to hear that Germany was speeding the shift of much of its war production to more remote Pomerania, Bohemia, Austria and Silesia, as predicted by Reich Marshal Hermann Goring...
could not hope to paralyze German transport except at the Ruhr bottleneck, but the broad new Autobahnen (speed highways) helped guide night pilots to Augsburg (northwest of Munich), which in the 15th and 16th Centuries was one of Europe's great trade centres and now has, besides the ancient palaces of its merchant princes, the Messerschmitt aircraft plant...