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Meanwhile the R.A.F. was meat-axing Cologne, Duisburg, Essen, Freiburg, Neuss and other rail centers feeding the West Wall. Some 270 Lancasters unloaded six-ton "factory-busters" on Munich, first German city to feel their blast...
...Germans have already trundled the bomb-damaged hulk of the battleship Tirpitz from Altenfjord south to Tromsö, where the R.A.F. found it and hit it again with a six-ton bomb...
Earthquakes to Order. Across the broad river lay South Beveland, joined to the mainland by an isthmus, and beyond that, Walcheren Island with the fortified town of Flushing. While R.A.F. Lancasters, carrying improved six-ton earthquake bombs, cut the dikes around Walcheren and flooded two-thirds of the island, Ontario troops led the way from Antwerp to the isthmus. They captured part of the town of Woensdrecht; for a time they held the road leading to South Beveland, and they brought the railway under artillery fire. But the Germans, still the masters of the prompt counterattack, struck swiftly with reinforcements...
...most Londoners were convinced that they were in for something infernally worse: a rocket-propelled robomb whose deadly war head might be ten times the size of V-1s, with explosive force far greater than even the R.A.F.'s six-ton factory-buster (see below...
Turkish equipment is poor. They have outmoded French-made Schneider 7 5-mm. artillery, some Mauser rifles, obsolete 105-mm. howitzers, German 1888 Mannlicher rifles, less than 100 anti-aircraft guns, a few out-of-date Russian-made six-ton tanks and six-wheel armored cars, perhaps 400 planes, mostly British Bristols, German Heinkels, U. S. Martins...