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...that matter other places were being bombed, too, so that didn't give him much to go by. Of course he knew that Terry was having a mild sort of love affair with Hu Shee in the Boston Herald before he stumbled onto Burma and that nasty Kiel. Still he couldn't believe that all Chinese girls looked like Hu Shee. Otherwise the Vag might have felt the old wanderlust boiling in his veins. Probably all Chinese girls wore pig-tails, and being very mature, Vag felt above that sort of thing...
...face of their great disadvantage in these respects, the Royal Navy's patrols -fewer by far than in World War I-must now cope with enemy submarines based, not way up the Channel coast at Zeebrugge or clear around the continent's shoulder in Bremen, Hamburg and Kiel, but just across the Channel in Le Havre, Brest, Lorient, St. Nazaire-perhaps in a dozen other obscure ports where they can slip home at night for more fuel, food and torpedoes after brief but lethal runs to meet convoys spotted if not bombed by the far-roving Luftwaffe...
...Mannheim were bombed 16 times, oil refineries and an aircraft factory at Frankfort on the Main twelve times, the Krupp works in Essen 16 times. At Cologne and Soest, railways, munitions works, chemical plants were attacked 29 times. Even heavier were the raids on the ports of Bremen, Wilhelmshaven, Kiel and Hamburg. Wherever there were railroad junctions, oil stores, munitions works, docks, factories, the British pilots had appeared, spattering a network of destruction across western Germany...
...pattern of bombings in Germany proper since June (extended last month to include Italy's key motor, magneto and aircraft plants at Milan and Turin, and last week to Sardinia) spreads from the Lake of Constance on the Swiss border to Kiel on the Baltic, and now as far east as Berlin (see map). Relentless, consistent, it was stepped up by last week to at least 800 planes per night, neutral observers believed, carrying a nightly total of perhaps 2,500 tons of destruction from 16 British bases. Its purpose was the slow, sure crippling of German industry...
...port and naval facilities of northeast Germany formed another natural group of targets for the British, who had only to find Germany's broad river,mouths at night to bomb Emden, Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Bremen, Hamburg, Kiel. The upper reaches of the Rhine and the Main guided them to Frankfort, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Waldshut. On the Weser lie Gottingen, Kassel, Rotenburg-all aircraft centres. On the Saale, tributary of the Elbe, were the big synthetic oil works of Leuna, the Zeiss instrument works at Jena...