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...sq.mi. of Tokyo (46% of the built-up area) had been burned or bombed to ashes...
...this week more than 50% of the built-up area of the city was in Russian hands. From the houses in Hindenburg Square Red Army men looked down on the moat and ancient Gothic buildings of the inner town...
...days. . . . It is a temptation that should be resisted. . . . We should ask ourselves whether it is a very attractive military proposition for an army to thrust forward in a narrow spear across a wide, defended river line and make a frontal attack on one of the greatest single built-up areas in the world. Unless the Germans are really on their last legs, it would seem to be asking for trouble to do that, and I don't believe the Russians will...
...second assault: "We haven't destroyed the plant-not by a damn sight." After the third blow, he still was not satisfied. "Possum" Hansell's flyers had better luck against the two Mitsubishi plants at Nagoya. The Hatsudoki factory had 600,000 square feet (40% of its built-up area) destroyed or gutted by fire. At Kokuki, photographs showed heavy concentrations of bomb hits directly on the assembly buildings and machine shops...
...Berlin's 20,000 acres, 8,000 are "built-up" areas. When the R.A.F. obtained its latest (Dec. 21) complete set of reconnaissance photographs, the buildings on about 1,360 of these 8,000 acres had been destroyed by 9,000 tons of bombs in six major raids. Since then the R.A.F. has dropped another 5,000 tons. Exact results will be known only when smoke, weather, other factors enable reconnaissance pilots to update their photographic evidence...