Word: sseldorf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...water when we learned that the Nazis had oiled many of the wells farther west. Old tins of British-made "Kiwi" shoe polish lay side by side with empty bottles of Chianti. Pressed into the sand was a letter to a German soldier from his father in Düsseldorf...
...Mainz, of such rail centers as Cologne, has forced the Germans to use barge canals and coastal waters. Last month, announcing that R.A.F. bombers were dropping 8,000-lb. blockbusters, the Air Ministry declared that photographs showed 270 acres of Karlsruhe and 370 acres of Düsseldorf laid waste. Other cities have been blasted just as intensively. Armament factories, shipbuilding yards and U-boat yards are known to have suffered...
...offensive of the United Nations seemed to be gaining in coordination, as well as in force and frequency. The Bremen raid involved perhaps 400 to 500 planes. The force which plastered Düsseldorf and its great steel works was closer to the 1,000-plane figure than any which had hit the Continent since June 1, when Cologne took a knockout blow...
...R.A.F., which lost 31 planes, Düsseldorf was a tougher nut than on previous raids because fighter-plane and other defenses had been stepped up. But for the 540,000 inhabitants of the city it was far, far worse. That could be seen even by a red-thatched, 22-year-old Scottish pilot from far above...
...fighter flares sent up by the Germans over the Dutch coast to help their night fighters, but we didn't see anything else until we were about 50 miles from Düsseldorf. Then we saw the flares dropped by our pathfinders and the searchlights and Flak ahead of us working on previous kites [planes]. When we got closer we saw that the town was loaded with searchlights, hundreds of them. There was almost a wall of searchlights in front of the target, but there were plenty of big fires to be seen already...