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Record Raid on 4 rargets Deep in Eastydnia, Danzig, German Plane Plants Are Blasted in Great Weekend Blitz; Bremen, Hanover Get It AgainAmerican Flying Fortresses and Liberators, flying from Britain on the gest mission yet carried out over the world's most heavily-defended 'itory, inflicted heavy damage Saturday on vital German military targets East Prussia, Poland and northwestern Germany, it was announced cially last night by Eighth Air Force Headquarters, n one of the war’s most spectacular bombing operations—which carried American heavies in some cases to within 400 miles of the Russiannt—the Forts and Libs achievedSoftening Up Ms Winter for i vasion * -Eaker5 Cites Growing Aerial Hows, ButWarns Battle Is Far From OveriSAAF and RAF raids will continue iughout this winter to soften up Ger-ly for invasion, Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, ith Air Force commander, said last a in a radio speech to America's war kers.he Allies’ “stem assignment this ter,” he said, was “to destroy faces and transport and weapons of the mans so that our invasion casualties be cut down.”lthough Gen. Eaker stressed the grow-might of Allied aerial attacks, he le it clear that the air offensive against many had not yet reached its maxi-n effort.”Now at “White Heat”Ehe battle has not yet reached its iax.” he said. ”The fight is now on vhile heat. We have just passed the i inning. We will win in the end and ill be a legal victory. There will be no checks and we won’t have to play game over. We will see to that. But have not yet reached the ’seventh-ng stretch.’ ”laking public official statistics which trated the mounting tempo of the predion assaults, Gen. Eaker revealed in September the tonnage of explo-5 dropped by American heavy bombers 50 per cent above the total of any ious month. In the same period, 262 i fighters were destroyed by the ibers.Still the offensive grows,” he asserted, ready this month our bombers have aped more than 4,400 tons of bombs Nazi targets, and they have destroyed e than 450 German fighters.” lisclosing that more than 4,000 airmen c part in Friday's assault on Bremen that more than 4,000 went out Satur-to raid targets in Poland and East tsia, Gen. Eaker added that the le has not yet reached its climax.” his was interpreted to mean that even iter numbers of planes would fly over many this winter.hunderbolts, “escorting our Forts and erators to deeper and deeper targets,” e destroyed 182 German fighters since il, Gen. Eaker announced Only 51 erican fighters have been lost in the e period, he said.We are not going to relax here, and must not relax at home,” the Eighth (Continued on page 2)the following results, according to an announcement by Brig. Gen. Frederick L. Anderson, Bomber Command chief: The huge Focke-Wulf assembly plant at Marienburg, in East Prussia, 200 miles beyond Berlin, was described as virtually destroyed.Four ships in. the Polish port of Gdynia, including the 550-foot liner Stuttgart, were set afire. Docks, railway yards and workshops were hit.An aircraft component factory at Ankiam, north of Berlin, was “severely damaged,” and at Danzig, large Baltic port, bombs struck oil storage tanks, buildings, a stores dump and railway communications.Foreshadowing the day when the aerial second front from Britain may be linked up with the vast ground front in Russia, the flight was the deepest penetration American bombers ever have made over Hitler’s roofless fortress.It gave eloquent testimony to the feebleness of German efforts to hamstring the Allied air offensive against the Reich, which Lt. Gen. Ira C. Eaker, Eighth Air Force commander, said last night could continue through the winter to soften up German defenses for invasion.26 Bombers Are LostTwenty-six American bombers were lost. Three of them, according to Stockholm reports, landed on Swedish soil and their jcrews were interned.Four thousand men participated in the trans-Germany missions, Gen. Eaker revealed.The raid climaxed what was probably the most active weekend the USAAF and RAF have yet experienced—a weekend rounded out yesterday by further blows by American heavy bombers on western Germany.On Friday the USAAF and RAF both hi: Bremen in great strength. Gen. Eaker revealed that 4,000 Americans also had participated in the USAAF part of the double blow. American heavies also blasted Vegesack: the Maraudersplastered a Dutch airfield. The RAF also struck Hanover. Mosquito crews, striking at Berlin Saturday night, said huge fires still were burning at Hanover. Swedish dispatches said the center of Bremen had been blanketed with bombs. (Story on Page Two.)The war's most spectacular and daring mass bomber raid, embracing a round trip of approximately 1,500 miles for some groups, was a major military operation by which Fortresses and Liberators in one tremendous assault opened the door to destruction on the eastern Ruhr and the Rhineland and at the same time gave direct support to the Russian army by (Continued on page 2)“All of Germany Now In Range’—AndersonCommenting on the long operation by the heavy bombers, Brig. Gen. Frederick L. Anderson, commandingf U a C irrlv tl-i RnnvLor nmmnn/f c'J t rl •
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