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listeners: "Whereas at first London was the sole target, and as many as 200 aircraft on any one night attacked the capital, the present procedure is to reduce the total number on London and to use more in the provinces. Several of our Midlands industrial towns have been receiving attention, and there is the usual scattered and useless bombing on an even more extended scale over country districts...
There are 1,500,000 archery addicts in the U. S. Most of these toxophilites are content with target shooting or flight shooting (for distance). But some 15,000 are Cock Robin killers: they want to kill something with their bows & arrows...
...Last week they smashed repeatedly at Berlin and set gas works, rail yards, factories on fire. They reported the Berlin Central Post Office entirely gutted. Still not yielding to popular pressure for "total" attacks on German civilians, the R. A. F. continued to concentrate its bombs on selected military targets. At the same time, the British canceled their order to pilots to bring all bombs home if the specified target could not be found. For the first time since September, the R. A. F. reminded Italy that she was vulnerable from the north by dropping big bomb loads on industrial...
...Cherbourg, the R. A. F. combined reconnaissance with bombing, directed the fire of British naval units which came in unexpectedly to attack. One R. A. F. officer gloated: "We were on the target when suddenly the Navy let fly. It was like 500 thunderstorms rolled into one. One of my pilots said that even the typhoons he had experienced in the Pacific Islands came nowhere near it. Every cloud flamed with bright amber color and we could see the bursts of the naval salvos in the docks. . . . The searchlights went quite drunk, waving aimlessly about the sky. The antiaircraft guns...
...Aircraft. With a weather eye on the way Air Marshal Goring's Luftwaffe was tearing up tactics books in Europe, Bill Knudsen tackled aircraft (the "one big bottleneck") first. The President had cried for 50,000 planes. That was an impossible figure. Knudsen set his sights for a target of 35,000-25,000 for the Army, 10,000 for the Navy. By last week he had ordered 10,096 planes (fighters, bombers, trainers, observation, transport), had mailed letters of intention (go ahead, contract coming) for 15,276 others costing...