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...sseldorf. Never before had the factories and communications of Germany and France taken such thumpings so closely repeated. There were no more 1,000-plane raids on single objectives. But there were times when 1,000 planes were banging at different Axis targets. And on the main objectives, the concentration of power was greater than ever before. In a raid on Düsseldorf, less than 700 bombers, by the British account, hammered the Rhineland's great (pop. 539,905) heavy-industry workshop (steel, tools, big guns). But the percentage of four-motored bombers, and probably their over...
Hamburg. Düsseldorf was the capstone in the week's grim monument of destruction. The bombers' first target was Hamburg. On that factory of submarines and other war machines more than 600 bombers dumped their loads-first tens of thousands of fire bombs, then high explosives shatteringly climaxed by 4,000-lb. "block busters." Two nights later the bombers gave Hamburg more of the horrible same in the pit that was still burning from the first raid...
...splashed the remains of Japanese B-4 bombers. Round the city, in the fields and hills, were the fire-blackened skeletons of other Jap ships. All 17 of them were evidence of the Jap's fate when he gave up bombing Chungking after one attempt and tried another target...
...frantic head of steam, evidently trying to get away from Kiukiang before we could get there. A great ocean freighter went past under our wings. By now the boats were growing thicker. Great patches in the river seemed alive. We grew tense in our seats watching for the target, watching for rising planes, watching for ack-ack fire, peering up into the sky above us for Japanese Zeros...
...their failure, the air force had many an embarrassed explanation-staleness, the difficulty of hitting a moving target with flat bombing, "just one of those bad days." Few mentioned what was in everybody's mind, because it was not an explanation. Air Forces men newly arrived from the States had told the veterans in Australia what they had bitterly begun to suspect: to the folks at home Australia was only a side show...