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...news from Hamburg was Berlin. By official order, "unessential" civilians were evacuated. The Berlin radio claimed that more than a million people jammed trains and busses, carrying bundles, dragging children. The alarm rose when the R.A.F. served official notice on Berliners that their city was the next target. In the parks and squares, perspiring citizens dug zigzag trenches while the long hospital trains with bomb-wounded crawled through the town...
Fanny Rouge puttered back & forth a few hundred feet above the battery. From the flimsy two-seater liaison plane the observer could see the target : German trucks and men clustered around buildings off to the right. Fanny Rouge radioed their location to her artillery...
...second shell was closer. Fanny Rouge again radioed corrections. The third burst was on the nose. "Target, target," said Fanny Rouge. "Fire for effect - one round...
...Repeat range - battery one round," said Fanny Rouge. Again the battery obliged. "Mission accomplished-cease firing," said Fanny Rouge. The target had been destroyed...
...this part of the Balkans the Germans had strong air defenses. The Liberators shot down at least 51 enemy fighters, lost 20 U.S. planes over the target and eleven more on the return. Over Ploesti's 19 sq. mi. of oil derricks, refineries, storage tanks and Tracking plants, the bombers dived dangerously low, within 500 ft. of the ground and often through flames from the fires. One Liberator was destroyed by a bomb blast. Behind them earth and air trembled, patterns of black smoke blossomed and merged into one massive pall...