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...Arthur, General Eaker and the airmen working with them never intended 1942 to be decisive; they intended it only to be a test. The measure of this test was the extent and nature of the German target-a scattered conglomeration of cities, varying from the industrial concentrations of the Ruhr to the ports of Hamburg and Bremen, the naval bases of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven. The R.A.F. and the U.S. Air Forces have calculated the minimum damage necessary to bring a decision. This calculation is secret. Unofficially, the view of airmen is that one-third to one-half of Germany...
...early 1943 the R.A.F. bombings seriously affected less than 10% of the German target, and much of the hurt has been repaired. If last year's bombings had a permanent effect, it was largely from one of the least noticed phases of the air offensive-the attacks by fighters and bombers on Axis rail equipment. Short of locomotives and freight cars when the war started, now needing them as never before the Germans by early 1943 were losing upward of 150 railway engines and many more freight cars each month...
...also clear by last week that Germans, individually and in the mess, reacted to bombing pretty much as the British did in the fall of 1940 and the spring of 1941. They died by the thousands; they suffered; they moaned to their soldiers at the front. In the target cities they lived in a hell worse than London's worst. But, up to this week, there has been no substantial evidence that the German people have yet been brought to the cracking point...
...three reasons why it has not been done before: 1) the logical time was when the rivers were in flood, the dams full, the dry season approaching; 2) big four-engined planes were needed, flown by experienced crews who had had weeks of specialized training and study of the target (bombing the dams was pinpoint work from the lowest altitude); 3) for maximum effect, flood disaster had to be carefully timed in the Allies' general bombing program. Experts considered that the best moment was when really heavy bombing had already disorganized Ruhr industry to a substantial extent, and when...
...battleship Oklahoma, once virtually upside down, is within ten degrees of upside up, but she still squats in the harbor mud. The battleship Arizona went under on an even keel, but her bow is still out of sight, the remnant of her stern only a bit above water. The target ship Utah is still turtle-turned, her big broad bottom hot and bare beneath the sun. Within the three hulks rest the skeletons...