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...British bombs also fell on Rouen railway yards, the St. Nazaire U-boat base, Wilhelmshaven docks and factories. The Allied air offensive was gathering spring momentum...
...Fortresses and Liberators precisely planted bombs in Wilhelmshaven and Brest. By night R.A.F. Sterlings and Lancasters pattern-bombed Cologne and St. Nazaire. German targets were getting around-the-clock pounding such as they had never had before...
Round-the-clock preoccupation with Cologne (submarine engines and parts), Wilhelmshaven, St. Nazaire and Brest (U-boat bases) bore out reports that one major Casablanca decision was to interrupt or abandon indiscriminate bombing of industrial targets. The chosen alternative: concentrate on submarine building centers and ports, thus easing the U-boat strain from United Nations supply lines...
Reported missing was the New York Times's Robert Perkins Post, a 32-year-old, bespectacled ex-White House reporter. Last week Bob Post and five other correspondents who had taken special training for air combat assignments (they called themselves the "Writing Sixty-ninth") accompanied U.S. airmen over Wilhelmshaven, Germany to watch a bombing mission. Bob Post's plane was one of the seven that did not return. Army announcement said only that two men had been seen parachuting from...
...grew intense, the R.A.F had blasted a pattern of destruction through German submarine-building cities, seeking to choke off U-boats at their source. Among them were Augsburg and Cologne (diesel engines), Essen (plates and torpedo tubes), Emden and Bremen (assembly yards), Warnemünde (U-boat training base), Wilhelmshaven and St. Nazaire, France (operational bases...