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...Motion Pictures: Norway in Revolt and Target for Tonight, Institute of Geographical Exploration...
...Maybe fun isn't the right word for it," said another. "But it was a lovely target and I'd say we got a devil of a kick...
...notice it. In this respect front-line camouflage has scarcely changed at all. But the coming of the bomber plane has started something new in rear areas. To meet that danger the modern camoufleur has to think of the necessity not of complete concealment, but of blurring a huge target from the eyes of a modern bomber who must actually see what he hits. The problem is not so impossible of solution as it appeared at first sight...
...intensity of his raids. Though it would probably take a while to repeat often such raids as those on Cologne and Essen, an R.A.F. spokesman said last week: "A thousand planes nightly is not the ultimate peak. There is no reason why another thousand should not attack a second target in Germany at the same time, or follow the first thousand on to the same target...
Opening blow was a tremendous shower of incendiaries: 40,000 thermite bombs from a single flight of bombers. Their white-hot showers reddened into smoky flames as they fired buildings. From then on, the other flights had a lighted target to shoot at. They squared away, dumped their sticks of demolition bombs, and ran for home...