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...would like to swap, let Britain have the southwest and take Britain's area, which includes the Ruhr, the Rhineland and the North Sea coast. Reason: U.S. supply lines, already stretched across the Atlantic, would be somewhat shortened by access from the North Sea. A possible compromise: joint U.S.-British occupation of all of western Germany...
South Germany might be unable to survive on its own. Union with Austria might become a necessity. Russia might well oppose a union of Catholic Bavaria and Catholic Austria, prefer to draw Austria into a bloc with Czechoslovakia and Poland. West Germans - Rhinelanders, Saarlanders, Westphalians of the Ruhr Valley - might clamor to be made independent, too. (At the end of World War I there was a brief Rhineland republic.) Bismarck's unifying labors in the 19th Century and recent Nazi pressure to eradicate old boundaries within the Reich may have gone so far that all dismemberment now would fail...
...rosy-cheeked Group Commander, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Cummings Jr., who was on Clark Field when the Japs attacked the Philippines, made his way to the Eighth by way of Corregidor, Java and Australia. In some five months, Cummings has led Thunderbolts over Bremen, Cologne, Emden and the Ruhr...
Result according to the British Ministry of Economic Warfare: although total German industrial production has fallen off at least 20% since last year, the output of such high-priority defensive weapons as fighter planes, tanks, land mines, antiaircraft and anti-tank guns has actually risen. Even Ruhr coal production has been largely maintained by doubling and tripling shifts, calling for volunteer workers. The locomotive shortage, one of Germany's worst problems, has been eased as German forces retreat and shorten the distances to the front...
Winter Promise. The new tactics had limitations. The maximum reach of fighter-escorted raids from Britain was probably no more than 400 miles, taking in the Ruhr industrial area but not much more. Even with the creation of the Fifteenth...