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AUGUST 6TH, 1942 ifli • ** :0::^ A U.S. Army Kittyhawk taking off from an improvised runway in Northern Australia. Hamburg Heavily Battered : The Luftwaffe Over Britain Struggle : Air Activity in the Middle East Russia's Grim HAMBURG has been a favourite target of Bomber Command ever since the beginning of the war, but it seems now that the lighter bombs which were dropped on it in the early days did only limited damage. Still, the succession of raids '•^d destruction all mounted up, though they did not prevent Hamburg from remaining the most important centre for building U-boats in all Ger many. With the U-boat campaign in the Western Atlantic now reaching a peak which is distinctly disquieting to both Britain and America, it has be come more urgent than ever to re strain the German shipyards from replacing the submarines which the escort vessels of the United Nations sink. If Bomber Command can do that to any appreciable extent, it will have struck a very useful blow to help 'n winning the war. The coming of the four-engined bomber in numbers enables its strokes to have a weight TO FIRE BOMB FRITZ : Canisters of incendiary bombs waiting to be *» loaded into the aircraft racks. In the big Hamburg raid over 170,000 incen diaries were dropped in 35 minutes. which was not possible in the first two years of the war. Never before had Hamburg had such a battering as it received on the night of Sunday, July 26th. The moon was bright, and a strong force of bombers set out in three waves. It was pointed out that that full moon was the first one of the summer which shone in a night long enough to bring Hamburg within range of a powerful raid. While the main force flew to wards the great seaport, other bombers .attacked airfields in the Low Countries by way of a diversion. The first wave which reached Hamburg droppe4
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