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...tactics were equally impressive. Three of the four heaviest R.A.F. attacks were delivered on twin targets. Purpose: to split up the Nazi interceptor forces, prevent concentration of Germany's highly organized mobile anti-aircraft artillery. The three raids: Nov. 3, Düsseldorf & Cologne; Nov. 18, Berlin & Ludwigshafen; Nov. 26, Berlin & Stuttgart. On these three and the Berlin attack Nov. 22, the R.A.F. lugged about 2,000 tons of bombs per night. An R.A.F. rule of thumb: one raid of 2,000 tons requires a month's organization work by 18,500 men, destroys as much...
Then the R.A.F. promptly took up the flail. A force hit Cologne at about 8 p.m. A few minutes later another force, much bigger, hit Düsseldorf for 27 minutes, during which more than 2,000 tons were dropped...
...night raids the R.A.F. delivered some 15,000 tons of bombs to western Germany. Cologne got 2.500 tons (in two raids): Düsseldorf, Bochum and Krefeld in the Ruhr got 2,000 tons each in single raids: 1,500 tons fell on each of three other Ruhr targets. The R.A.F.'s three-month bomb total: 37,500 tons, more than three times the weight of bombs dropped on Germany in the same months last year...
R.A.F. reconnaissance last week gave evidence that bombing had cut the Ruhr's industrial output 35%. Some of the more important centers had suffered even more. More than 1,000 acres of Düsseldorf, western Germany's most important commercial city, were devastated in a single raid on June 11. Not only its factories, but administrative and engineering quarters, which serve much of the whole Ruhr sector, were destroyed. Seven days after the raid fires could still be seen smoldering...
...Germany in 1943 will get several times 1942's 37,000 tons. In February, March and April the R.A.F. dropped an average of at least 10,000 tons of bombs on German objectives each month. In the last week of May, in four raids on Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen and Wuppertal, the R.A.F. dropped about 6,500 tons. Said Sir Arthur after Dortmund got its packet of 2,000 tons: "In 1939 Göring promised that not a single enemy bomb would reach the Ruhr. Congratulations on having delivered the first 100,000 tons on Germany...