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...hommes de Munich-The men of Munich must be purged. "There must be no more Munichs in the form of blocs, or any other form...
Meanwhile the R.A.F. was meat-axing Cologne, Duisburg, Essen, Freiburg, Neuss and other rail centers feeding the West Wall. Some 270 Lancasters unloaded six-ton "factory-busters" on Munich, first German city to feel their blast...
Another new Battlefronts writer (who worked 11 years for the Associated Press) began following the battle for Europe long before Munich-went through the bombing of Barcelona and the Spanish War, was bombed again in Brussels in 1940, got out of Belgium just a jump ahead of the Nazis, then worked for months in occupied Paris and collaborating Vichy ("I began to feel like a Jonah"). Two years ago he was awarded a Nieman Fellowship in journalism at Harvard, and five years before that the National Headliners Club gave him a gold plaque for the best spot news coverage...
...sleet-streaked weather a fleet of 400 U.S. Eighth Air Force fighters ripped out to strafe oil storage depots in the Munich area and at Hanau (near Frankfurt). To the Germans the targets were important enough to send up fighters-for the first big-scale air battle in three weeks. Results: 86 Nazi aircraft destroyed; 16 U.S. lost. The same day a fleet of 650 U.S. heavy bombers, protected by 300 fighters, flew up from Italy to the Vienna area. Again the target was rocket-bomb fuel supplies...
Where was Adolf Hitler? He had not been seen or heard since July 21. Last week for the first time ever, he failed to address the Reich on the anniversary of his Munich Beer Hall Putsch...