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Photo reconnaissance indicated that 80% of Germany's twin-engined fighter-plane production had been knocked out; 60% of her single-engined production is gone. In addition the raids destroyed 25% of the Reich's heavy-bomber building capacity, and 60% of transport production. Strategic bombing officials believe that if the victory is followed up, the Luftwaffe cannot make up its losses...
...Anglo-American air attack on Germany must be regarded as our chief offensive effort at the present time. Until the middle of 1943 we [the British] had by far the largest force in action. As a result of enormous transportations across the Atlantic . . . the U.S. bomber force in this island now begins to surpass our own and will soon be substantially greater still, I rejoice...
Bombing stories again became the main topic of conversation in pubs, clubs, offices, busses and homes, on the old basis of ril-listen-to-your-bomb-if-you'11-listen-to-mine. There was the new tale of a German airman who parachuted from his crippled bomber, then had to hike seven miles, trying at an inn and three villages before he could get someone to capture him. There was the heartbreaking story of the big London distillery that took a hit and the stock of gin that was lost...
...upon reaching base. Mostly he carries people and supplies, just as he once carried a full load of medicines to earthquake victims in Chile. That was five years ago last month. Grandpappy's pilot then was burly Major Caleb V. Haynes, now a Brigadier General heading the First Bomber Command at Mitchel Field, New York, onetime boss of all of Chennault's bombers in China...
...fantastically heroic, patriotic allegory. Once the men are through talking, the Captain, in the film's best bit of acting, announces the French armistice. Then he secretly sets his course for England. The Fascists stage a mutiny and are defeated. The Fascist radio operator gives a Nazi bomber their position. The bomber's guns rake the decks murderously before Humphrey, Bogart, singlehanded, shoots it down. Cinemactor Bogart slaughters the surviving members of the bomber crew where they stand, afloat on the ruined wing, which is a powerful symbol for vanquished Germany. At the end, the ex-convicts...