Newspaper cutting - the death throes of a city

Newspaper cutting - the death throes of a city

Target photographs with clouds and smoke with falling bombs in centre. Text below describes twin attacks on Duisburg which ended the life of Germany's greatest inland port.

One newspaper cutting with b/w photograph and text

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THE DEATH THROES OF A CITY

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BELOW these mounting banks of smoke lies Duisburg. The city is a mass of flames. Through a cleft in the clouds bombs are still being dropped

In the giant R.A.F. raids of Saturday and Sunday – twin attacks that ended the life of Germany's greatest inland port – 10,000 tons of bombs, including half a million incendiaries were unloaded; one ton to every 45 inhabitants.