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Died. Ernst August, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, 65, son-in-law of Kaiser Wilhelm II, father of Queen Frederika of Greece and head of the House of Hanover; of a liver ailment; at Marienburg Castle, Hanover, Germany...
...Just a poor Lithuanian peasant girl from Marienburg," answered his cautious host, bumbling 60-year-old Marshal Boris Sheremetiev, the third most powerful man in Peter the Great's Russia. "Does housework for Mme. Sheremetiev. I drew her when we divided the people...
Still setting up new operational records, Allied air power based in Britain launched attacks on some 40 targets in Germany and occupied Europe. The air strikes pounded French airfields, reached out as far as Posen and Gdynia in Poland, and Marienburg in East Prussia...
...instead of landing behind Russian lines they had to turn back in midair and strain their way back to England. In this and four other beyond-Berlin strikes, 31 bombers and eight fighters were lost. Toward Marienburg, East Prussia, the fighters put in their longest mission; they escorted the bombers all except the last 100 miles...
Single-Engine Aircraft Construction: Focke-Wulf assembly and component plants hit at Bremen (considerable damage, plant abandoned), Kassel (one considerable, one negligible), Oschersleben (light), Warnemunde (light), Marienburg (devastated), Anklam (most severe); Messerschmitt 109G plants severely damaged at Regensburg and Wiener-Neustadt; Paris Renault plant heavily damaged...