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...great German blitz on England the conditions were geographically opposite. Britain was a concentrated target with a few industrial areas, all of which could be plastered with bombs. In Germany and Occupied Europe there were many more targets, and bombing must be dispersed. But this had its advantages for the attackers...
Defending the compact target of Britain in 1940, the R.A.F. could keep its pursuit together, use it with crushing concentration. The Luftwaffe's job of heading off attacks from the wide reaches of German-held territory was more difficult. Germany had work for its fighters on the Russian front, and the few hundred that could be spared for defense against the R.A.F. had to be scattered...
Triphammers' Trips. After the Lübeck and Rostock raids the four-motored bombers swung into Norway, turned up with 75 heavy bombers over Trondheim, where the Tirpitz and Prinz Eugen are holed up. Under a bright bomber's moon, the raiders went after another target -a big submarine base just completed after two years of work by Danish vassal labor. Few days later the returns came in from agents in Sweden: two years had been wasted. The base was reported a ruin...
Turning the little knobs on her gun predictor for the first time in real action, 18-year-old Private Nora Caveney matched up the pointers, cried: "On target." As the guns spat, came the high whine of German bombs, a crash. A hot, jagged bomb splinter ripped through the sandbags and struck Nora Caveney in the chest. Another girl jumped into her place; another treble cry went up: "On target...
They slugged with a new pattern. Now, instead of dispersing each night over a vast area, they dropped almost all their eggs into one industrial basket. And now they came in repeated raids on the same target, re-Coventrizing their Coventries...