Word: sseldorf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sseldorf's turn came on a moonless night last week. Three nights later it was Bremen's. Simultaneously Soviet bombers ranged over eastern Europe, attacking Königsberg in East Prussia, Bucharest and Rumania's Ploesti oil fields...
...sseldorf. Never before had the factories and communications of Germany and France taken such thumpings so closely repeated. There were no more 1,000-plane raids on single objectives. But there were times when 1,000 planes were banging at different Axis targets. And on the main objectives, the concentration of power was greater than ever before. In a raid on Düsseldorf, less than 700 bombers, by the British account, hammered the Rhineland's great (pop. 539,905) heavy-industry workshop (steel, tools, big guns). But the percentage of four-motored bombers, and probably their over...
Hamburg. Düsseldorf was the capstone in the week's grim monument of destruction. The bombers' first target was Hamburg. On that factory of submarines and other war machines more than 600 bombers dumped their loads-first tens of thousands of fire bombs, then high explosives shatteringly climaxed by 4,000-lb. "block busters." Two nights later the bombers gave Hamburg more of the horrible same in the pit that was still burning from the first raid...
...Luftwaffe fought stoutly back. Night fighters, with the help of pursuit, shot down 29 bombers at Hamburg in the first raid, 32 in the second, 30 at Düsseldorf. But the British over-all loss was kept below the marginal 5%. And the Germans had their losses, too: nine Focke-Wulf 1905 here, six or seven there...
...good to hear Brooklyn-born R.C.A.F. Pilot Charles Honychurch say of Cologne: "It was like looking down the mouth of hell." To those whose kids had been taken from them and evacuated to the country it was good to hear of mass evacuations from Cologne, Aachen, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Mainz. To those who had seen their St. Martin-in-the-Fields smashed it was sad but good to hear of Jerry's St. Maria im Capitol being pocked...