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Emden ... |«5troll(Continued from Page 1-A.) the yards as well as paper and ma* I. C chinery factories. *ateSubmarine works, docks, lock bnn gates and controlling canals, all|gav« important to Germany’s weaken- one ing transportation system, were] _ among the targets, it was re-vealed.Emden’s large harbor is capable of sheltering a substantial part be ? of the German fleet and is sur- evei rounded by repair and shipbuild- ing yards and oil storage tanks, afte The port handles the bulk of Ger- Ben many's iron ore shipments fromj Scandinavia. I «Returning pilots said the Ger- a^,r mans hurled one of the war’s larg- do est concentrations of fighters at reVl them in “vicious attacks. Six I hj Junkers 88’s shot down four For-1 tresses in one attack but return- . ing pilots said they left Emden I ma. blanketed with fires and smoke. oth The Americans went out a *ew U hours after British light Mosquito th bombers, in the first R.A.F. nightKerv.1. i t-i v l crJ'i t C Iattack on Germany in six nights,. rey hit objectives in the western reich I awithout loss. The R.A.F.’s h^avyisia* bombers have been grounded since ‘ the night of Dec. 3 when they j bombed Leipzig after feinting at LBerlin. waGertnans Surprised.The first Fortress squadrons got over Emden so quickly that Ger- 1 man ground defenses were sur- we prised. They had a clear run over nat the target but then the Germans cri; broke out their smoke pots and the the remaining formations had to hs t bomb thru a thick, black smudge, ver Many crews, some of them vet- pie erans of the Oct. 14 raid on on Schweinfurt in which a record 60 sel: Fortresses were shot down, said J the fighter opposition was some no of the toughest they ever encoun- wa tered, despite the fact they had a Ge. rxf thftirl Jprotective fighter cover of their own. 1 fas1 lt;•The German fighters, most ot tnc them Messerschmitt 210’s and tio: Junkers SS’s, concentrated mostly! cri on the low flying bomber groups. J The fighters lined up in sixesJ me swept in head on with their rocket -guns bJazing, and then peeled off hf* in single file. American crews re- Of ported seeing more twin * engined str fighters than they had in some ar; time. Some of the attackers were wt Messerschmitt 109's and Focke-|mi Wulf 190’s, indicating the Germans possibly had thrown every plane available for miles around into the fray.ofde
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Lincoln Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Dec 12, 1943
Page 8
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