Newspaper cutting - 2,200 heavies hit Germany: Essen blazes
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Newspaper cutting - 2,200 heavies hit Germany: Essen blazes
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Describes attacks by 2,200 big bombers ranged over western Germany. 6000 tons of bombs dropped for the loss of only six bombers. The RAF contributed 1000 bombers and made their chief target a return visit to Essen. Give some description of operation.
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One newspaper cutting
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2,200 heavies hit Germany: Essen blazes
Express Air Reporter
MORE that [sic] 2,200 big bombers ranged over Western Germany yesterday – the mightiest air fleet ever to cross the Reich border.
And they gave Germany its biggest pounding of the war, with probably more than 6,000 tons. at a cost of only six bombers. The Luftwaffe stayed down and let the raiders do what they liked.
The R.A.F. contributed more than 1,000 bombers, and mad their chief job a return visit to Essen.
The Krupp city, apparently marked down for a complete knock-out, was dotted with smouldering ruins and had roads choked with debris from Monday night's 4,500-ton raid when the Lancasters and Halifaxes returned.
Cloud lay thick all along the bombers' track. But just over Essen there was a break, and out of the blue sky bombs rained down for half an hour.
More fires blazed, and columns of smoke piled up three miles high.
Crews saw bombs crash through factory roofs; watched flames engulf workshops; and saw great explosions.
The Americans put more than 1,200 Forts and Liberators over the Reich, pouring explosives on Hamm and oil targets in the Hamburg-Harburg area.
Express Air Reporter
MORE that [sic] 2,200 big bombers ranged over Western Germany yesterday – the mightiest air fleet ever to cross the Reich border.
And they gave Germany its biggest pounding of the war, with probably more than 6,000 tons. at a cost of only six bombers. The Luftwaffe stayed down and let the raiders do what they liked.
The R.A.F. contributed more than 1,000 bombers, and mad their chief job a return visit to Essen.
The Krupp city, apparently marked down for a complete knock-out, was dotted with smouldering ruins and had roads choked with debris from Monday night's 4,500-ton raid when the Lancasters and Halifaxes returned.
Cloud lay thick all along the bombers' track. But just over Essen there was a break, and out of the blue sky bombs rained down for half an hour.
More fires blazed, and columns of smoke piled up three miles high.
Crews saw bombs crash through factory roofs; watched flames engulf workshops; and saw great explosions.
The Americans put more than 1,200 Forts and Liberators over the Reich, pouring explosives on Hamm and oil targets in the Hamburg-Harburg area.
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“Newspaper cutting - 2,200 heavies hit Germany: Essen blazes,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 26, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/33556.
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