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Into this last-chance gamble Hitler has thrown many of his still vast resources. From the inland industrial centers of the Ruhr he can spawn his raiders and send them across the world. The biggest craft are launched into the Baltic and the North Sea. Smaller craft can be floated through river and canal arteries across the face of France, spewed out into the English Channel through the Seine, into the Mediterranean through the Saone-Rhone Rivers, into the Bay of Biscay through the Loire River...
...Italy, left "colossal" fires blazing at Turin and made their first swoop over Mussolini's naval base at La Spezia. R.A.F. bombers by night, U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators by day, flew over western Europe. They gave Hamburg its 95th plastering. They roared through the valley of the Ruhr. They swarmed over the U-boat base at Lorient, where ten acres of the naval arsenal have now been reported destroyed. Apparently unable to pierce the eleven-foot roofs of the concrete sub pens, the Allied bombers have concentrated on softer targets which are vital to maintenance and repair. Result...
...little. For the time being, she is well set for aircraft machinery but needs certain precision tools and parts, such as exact ball bearings. She does not worry about bombings as long as Shangri-La is farther from Tokyo and much more uncertain than Britain in relation to the Ruhr. Industrially, Japan is by no means near collapse...
Britain's air forces were not idle. Twice during the week bombers smashed western Germany's industries, not neglecting the Ruhr. But bomber strength more frequently was swung on the German submarine base at Lorient, which had four raids in ten days. Light bombers and fighters swept day & night over occupied territory, shooting up trains, bombing light-industrial targets...
...need for destruction in the Ruhr was direr than it had been since last winter. From the Ruhr came steel, heavy castings, forgings and weapons for Adolf Hitler's all-too-effective submarine fleets...