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...list of biggest everythings, last week the U. S. added the B-19, a 70-ton flying battleship, capable of flying to Europe and back at from 200-300 m.p.h. with a 28-ton "useful" load of bombs, fuel, crew, miscellaneous cargo.* "Useful" load is not to be confused with bomb load; how much the bomb load is in the B-19 the Army did not care to say. care...
Last August 31, a few hours before his airmen set out to make good his boast in Poland, he promised the British Ambassador to Germany, Sir Nevile Henderson, that, if Germany and Great Britain went to war, his Air Force would bomb only military objectives. Wise Sir Nevile reminded him that because of the speed and height of modern aircraft, bombs aimed supposedly at military targets might easily fall in residential London. Sir Nevile added that he would object to being hit on the head by any such present from Hermann Göring...
...third time, flew the squadron to Darmstadt. A part of it became detached and had to land at Mannheim, where the fliers were clapped into prison. Göring telegraphed an ultimatum to the military authorities in Mannheim, demanding his comrades' release within an hour. Otherwise he would bomb Mannheim to the ground. The men were released. A few days later Göring disbanded the Circus and disappeared into Sweden...
Five minutes after the first two, another lone bomber power-dived in over List from due west. The German batteries set up such a fierce yammering that the newcomer released only two bombs before whirling back over the North Sea. But the whole length of Sylt-the seaplane base down at Westernland, the anti-aircraft towers on the Hindenburg Damm (causeway) connecting the island umbilically with the mainland, and the seaplane base at Hörnum on the southeast tip 20 miles away-began thudding and crackling with bomb and gun explosions. For ten minutes more Herr Schmidt watched...
...Germany, matriculated at the University of Munich. To pay his way, he took a job as occasional correspondent for United Press. He was in Munich when Adolf Hitler set forth with a handful of followers from the Bürger-bräukeller (where last November's bomb exploded) on his first unsuccessful Putsch to seize the Government...