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...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 as 75,000 Nazis...
...hour blow at the coast. Part of this pattern of power was the R.A.F.'s series of night raids on Berlin and other German targets in the preceding fortnight, on Munich and Mannheim-Ludwigshafen last week. So was a strong daylight raid by U.S. Fortresses on Stuttgart. The immediate purpose of these raids was local destruction, but they also furthered the campaign to whittle away German fighter forces and pin them down far from the coasts...
Berlin, Munich, Nürnberg, Stuttgart, Essen-everywhere the wings of the R.A.F. shadowed the moon and destruction followed for the Herrenvolk below...
...Stuttgart is the old city where, in the heyday of the Nazi Party's rise to world power, the Auslandsdeutschen-Germans living abroad-met each year to plan their fifth-column tactics. Last week a half hour's raid left extensive areas of Stuttgart afire, presumably including the Daimler-Benz motor plants, the Bosch ignition works, the mass-production auto factory of Opel and many other war-important industries...
...Britons who had been hardened in bitterness and vengeance by the Luftwaffe's blitzes. But bitterness and anger, even if they balanced fraying nerves, could not undo the destruction. Munich's twin-spired Frauenkirche might be wrecked, Hans Sachs's Nürnberg gone forever, Stuttgart's fine baroque palaces burned out, but there was another score, and Germans knew more of it than the British told...