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...this time is the Germans' use of aircraft. Here again, the use of upper Norwegian and lower French bases has proved invaluable. At first the Germans used aircraft principally as eyes, and to sow magnetic mines, but with the development of two long-range fighter-bombers, the Focke-Wulf Zerstorer and Kurier, which can sweep halfway across the Atlantic and back, they began to use planes for destruction as well. The British ogling of Irish bases is not so much for the sake of the Navy as for the R.A.F., which is hampered in the Battle of the Atlantic...
...days & nights fled toward spring. From French bases huge Focke-Wulf Kuriers roared out over the Atlantic, radioing to Nazi submarines the location of the convoys that are the British lifeline from the U. S. After unloading bombs the Kuriers flew on their great semicircular course to Denmark or Norway; refueled, made the return trip. Week in & out the British ships sank, with their loads of U. S. foods, supplies, war materials. The need for ships and ships and ships grew greater by the day; in the U. S. the Navy Yard workers' rivet hammers beat faster...
...whole coast of Europe from Narvik to Bayonne was now German. The shipbuilding facilities of the whole Continent were now German. Germany now had not 100, but (with the Italians) at least 300 U-boats, and more being readied. Germany now had long-range bombers, notably the Focke-Wulf Kurier, specifically designed to ride far out over the seaways to sink ships...
...culmination of a week in which Folke-Wulf Kurier bombers reported three certain and three probable sinkings 300 miles off Portugal, the Madeira story made some of the blackest reading for the British since the counter-blockade got under...
...Luftwaffe took a rest after the big London raid, then gave the capital an easy time as it swept in along the south coast to hand Cardiff and Bristol blistering doses of fire bombs and explosives. The R. A. F. plastered Bremen hard three nights running, firing the Focke-Wulf factory and large areas of the town, blowing up docks and oil refineries. At week's end German bombers returned to London in another incendiary attack but thousands of cheering civilian fire-watchers stamped out the flames before they could catch hold. Only hint of something...