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...Minutes, Two Ships. At 14 minutes before midnight, her batteries spoke. Her target was a Nip destroyer. Just 98 seconds later it was ablaze. As the enemy ship exploded and sank, the Helena swung her guns on a cruiser...
...Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, said: "The Schweinfurt attack will have a definite effect on the German war economy . . . and will result in the shortening of the war." The Luftwaffe lost at least 102 fighters, used 300 fighter planes to try to defend "the most vital air target in all Germany...
...Washington spokesman explained: "We could plan short-haul raids for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday figuring on a 5% loss each day. But here we have a wonderful target. We know it's going to cost us, say, 15%, so we don't go out on Monday or Tuesday. We save our big stuff for Wednesday. In the end we suffer the same percentage loss. It's as though a family set aside $5 a week in their budget for pleasure, then decided to wait a month, save up $20 and blow the whole works on a damn...
...record was an argument for daytime precision bombing. It was also a lesson in the limitations of all bombing: many a city and installation (Emden, Hüls), supposedly devastated, was still a going target for more & more bombings. Highlights...
...were overwhelmed, the Jap had been building on Wake. In 48 hours 600 tons of high explosive, some half million .50-caliber bullets struck the atoll's four square miles. At 150 tons of high explosive per sq. mi., it was the most concentrated attack on any Pacific target...