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...British heavy bombers, grounded for several days, returned to the punishing round-the-clock schedule at week's end. In a raid unparalleled in its force they beat down the Ruhr's defenses and loosed 2,000 tons of bombs over the rail and water transport center of Dortmund, already heavily damaged in previous raids. With such attacks the weight of bombs dropped on Germany was soaring to astronomical figures: after Dortmund, the R.A.F. figured that its Bomber Command had reached the 100,000-ton mark. German retaliation to the air war was, by comparison, infinitesimal-nuisance raids...
While the British-heavies were grounded, the R.A.F.'s sensational new bomber plane, the twin-engined, plywood Mosquito, stung the Reich by day & night with swift hit-&-run raids. On three successive nights last week Mosquitoes bombed Berlin by brightest moonlight; they made six raids against the Reich capital within eight days. From all these raids not a plane was lost; it was not until the sixth raid that Berlin gunners even scored a hit on a Mosquito. The plane they winged came back to England, flying at treetop height, with one motor shot...
Within a week the partially completed bomber strip near Holtz Bay was in U.S. hands. Ridge after ridge was captured, until the defenders were compressed into an area of 20 sq. mi. U.S. losses were lighter than had been expected...
...bombers lurched frantically for the cover of their own antiaircraft. The Zeros piled into the Lightnings and both top covers swirled in a thundering dogfight. Down below, Lieut. Rex T. Barber whipped into a bomber, sawed off its tail with a burst of fire, knocked off a second as he pulled out of the attack...
...erstwhile corporation lawyer was introduced to the problems of public concern via a hard fought political campaign; it is significant to note that, as the time of his political education progressed, his political and economic liberalism ever increased. The 31,000 mile trip around the world via the Liberator bomber, "Gulliver," has begun a further stage of Mr. Willkie's growth--the expansion of his international ken and consciousness. Unlike the education of Henry Adams, Wendell Willkie's experience has taught him the ever growing oneness of the world, the unity which economic and political interdependence force upon the future...