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...sometimes disguised as French peasants, even as women, to put the torch to villages in the Allies' rear areas. German motorcycle troops with armored breastplates and flame-throwing tanks with crews in suits of asbestos made incursions behind the French lines. The Germans used cardboard shapes to decoy bombing attacks to fake airfields, and dummy superstructures to make trucks and light tanks look like heavy tanks. They mixed delayed action bombs with their contact bombs, so that even duds caused terror. German bombers scoured the skies over Allied columns moving along highways, coming down in ear-shattering power dives...
Weygand had no compensating means of distraction. The Germans' fuel supply was one vulnerable point, and R. A. F. bombers were sent again & again on carefully selected missions to bomb big oil depots at Cologne, Düsseldorf, Aachen, Hamburg. Hectoring the German supply line passing west between Bapaume-Cambrai and Amiens-Péronne, even if he could not break through, was urgent, and there Weygand massed artillery...
Pride of the U. S. Army Air Corps is its secret bombsight, which is accurate for level-flight bombing at altitudes as high as 18,000 feet. Pride of the German Luftwaffe, apparently lacking an instrument of such uncanny accuracy, is a more primitive but certainly effective means of putting air projectiles down on the bull's-eye: dive bombing. Last week, from the Marne to the Scheldt, Nazi airmen in ungainly, single-motored Junkers Ju.87s were on the go from dawn to dusk, dropping out of the dazzling sun in near-vertical dives on docks, factories, ammunition dumps...
Some correspondents, recounting raids by machine gun and light bomb on roads crowded with refugees and military transport, charged them to Stuka squadrons because the name had grown pregnant with implications of Nazi frightfulness. These were, in most cases, raids by low-flying attack bombers which swept roads with machine-gun fire and bombs, depended on firepower, speed and whole sale demoralization for their getaway with a minimum of trouble from anti-aircraft fire...
Wings Over England? As the German land drive turned westward from below Sedan and headed for the English Channel, the British Isles waited for the blow that was inevitable. Their only countermeasure last week begun in advance was to try to devastate the Ruhr munitions works, to bomb at long range German aircraft production centres at Dessau, Rostock, Oranienburg, Augsburg, Rangsdorf, Johan-nisthal, Gotha, Schonefeld, Halle, Leipzig. Factories in those places were believed to be supplying Germany with 50 warplanes and 90 motors a day. Hopefully the British declared that their own defenses could inflict 40% losses (coming & going...