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British pilots learned the futility of attempting to ruin tunnels, destroy open railroad lines, bomb out freight yards, which can be repaired within a few hours. Knocking out bridges proved difficult (Cologne's Südbrücke, hit repeatedly, is still in service). But locomotives are R.A.F. meat. As targets they offer an additional advantage-they must always be brought within range. To supply their Channel defenses, for instance, the Germans have to bring locomotives up to the coast within convenient reach of British fighter planes...
Sometime later we welcomed to our very "Christmas Evey" party a tall man in his thirties, with a weather-beaten face and intense blue eyes surrounded by the tiny wrinkles which come from long years at sea. It was Lieut. Capt. Helmuth von Mücke. We sat down to Christmas Eve dinner about 8 o'clock. At midnight coffee was served (also Christmas cookies), but not until 3 o'clock in the morning did anyone think of the time or of moving from their places. We heard at first hand the story of those now world-famous...
...wonder where von Mücke is now ? Müller I believe is dead...
...Believed still alive, von Mücke - last accounted for in Nazi Germany - may be on the threshold of new war adventures...
Likewise enlightening are Instructor Goldwater's careful analyses of different kinds of Primitivism in the two great groups of pre-War experimenters in Germany: Die Brücke ("The Bridge") and Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider...