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Hitler's residence (but not the Reich Chancellery on the Wilhelmstrasse), Goebbels' home lie in ruins. Göring's offices in Prussia House were being repaired when another bomber abruptly finished them off. Other write-offs: the Foreign Office, Treasury Office, Gestapo Headquarters, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's official residence, Home Office, Army Records Office, Ministry of Armaments & Munitions, Ministry of Education. Severely damaged factories read like a Berlin industrial directory: Siemens, A.E.G., Dornier, Rheinmetall-Borsig, Alkett Motor, B.M.W., Schering...
Britain's bomber chief, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris, once said that it may take 40,000 tons to kill Berlin. Counting small-scale raids, the city has had about half of that dose. Harris has 20,000 tons...
Next of Kin. Early last summer, when Bob Hope was about to board an Army bomber for Belfast, he was asked who should be notified in case of his injury or death. He named Hearstling Parsons as his next of kin. "She'd be mad," he explained, "if she wasn't the first to know...
...starboard wing shot off, the port wing half buckled and the fuselage bent and torn from collision with a tree. The U.S. noted all this and brought out its own slightly modified version of the plane as the A36 Invader, which did mighty work as a dive and glide bomber and ground-support plane in Sicily...
Yellow Fire. A flight of 32 Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs tackled a leading squadron of Thunderbolts. Other German fighters bored straight through at the bombers. First, four Focke-Wulfs; then 30; then twelve; then they poured in, slamming through the tight gun-studded bomber formations without even rolling over...