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...fact remained last week, after more German air raids over the North Sea, one of which ended with a lone Heinkel bomber being brought down like a shot duck near the mouth of the Firth of Forth, that Germany's winter campaign of harassment affects the mass of Britain's shipping about as much as a woodpecker tapping on a bank vault. Because of the small bombs used and the difficulty of sighting for enough lethal hits, most of the ships claimed as "sunk" by Nazi pilots are only damaged. They limp into port with their wounded groaning...
...either crashed in flames, sank at sea or limped home. It had been rumored that the German planes had "puncture-proof" fuel tanks which, though riddled, enabled them to fly beyond capture. Last week Britain released details of the puncture-proofing, learned by experts from examination of a Heinkel bomber downed in Scotland's Lammermuir Hills in the war's eighth week...
...they do when nervous, Nazis grew sarcastic. "What a sum!" commented Deutscher Dienst on a $100,000 relief installment from the U. S. "Not even a whole airplane; just the left wing of a bomber...
...Thirty-one Russian bombers raided the port of Turku, set fire to its 700-year-old castle, and the Finns retaliated with a remarkably successful raid on the Estonian island of Oesel in the Baltic, damaging the Russian air base. The three Finnish raiders were led by an Italian-made Savoia-Marchetti bomber...
...Propaganda Ministry at Berlin. To assembled correspondents, Colonel Schumacher-43, heavy and bald-declared that he was surprised the British would attempt raiding on a clear day. He saluted British gallantry and skill, but explained that his men's only problem had been to break up the bomber formations by diving on them, then shooting rear machine-gunners before proceeding to cut down the Vickers Wellingtons one after another. One of Colonel Schumacher's young men was credited with getting three British in ten minutes...