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...their Baltic backyard the Germans last week were getting a taste of their own mine and U-boat medicine. Six German troop transports went down. Cargo ships that spill Swedish iron ore and Finnish wood pulp into the Nazi war machine were being sunk. Trans-Baltic ferry service had been suspended. German Baltic ports were jammed with minesweepers, destroyers, patrol boats and anti-aircraft vessels...
...daring assault on Danzig, some 800 miles from Britain. Squadrons of giant four-motored Lancasters swept down on the former Free City in the early evening, while it was still daylight, to dump heavy bomb cargoes on submarine-building yards and other targets. Other squadrons simultaneously attacked Flensburg, another U-boat spawning ground at the Danish-German frontier. Unofficial statements that three bombers missing from the operation constituted a loss of less than 5% was indication that something over 60 bombers took part in the attack, aided by a cloud cover over the target areas...
...announcement that a Nazi spy ring was believed broken up did not tell the whole story. Short-wave equipment capable of sending information on ship movements "halfway around the world" was confiscated and dozens of arrests made. British and Norwegians said a "bitter blow" had been struck at the U-boat campaign in the North Atlantic...
Attacking Bremen four nights in eight, the R.A.F. went die-straight to two sources of Nazi troublemaking: the U-boat yards and plane factories of Germany's second port. British authorities described the ancient Hanseatic city, after its four-raid treatment, as in the same rubble-heaped condition as Rostock, Lübeck and Cologne, pocked by huge craters, smudged by long-burning fires...
Highly important to the U.S. was the fact that Bremen sheltered one of Germany's greatest U-boat building yards, the Deschimag works. Also important to second front possibilities was the fact that Bremen's sprawling docks funnel most of the German Army's supplies to Norway. It is a funnel that must be plugged if Norway should be the site of a frontal assault. Bremen, too, was the home of commerce-raiding, long-range Condor planes and the Focke-Wulf aircraft plant, where some of Hitler's deadliest fighter planes were built. Aerial photographs showed...