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1945
1945 - 0739.PDF
APEIL IQTH, 1945 OVER THE WAVES : A Coastal Command rocket-Mosquito flying low over the North Sea. The "Admiral Scheer" Sunk : Wellingtons Leave the Mediterranean, hut Still Useful : R*N. Carriers in the Pacific TIE picture on the West Frontto-day is of famous Germancities (infamous would be a better word) which have for years been the targets of Bomber Com- mand now falling, one after an- other, like ripe plums into the hands of the British and American forces. Our air power is still active, but what impresses the onlooker most yie end of that great bombing offensive. No longer need the day bombers and the night bombers fight their way with lamentable loss to strike at' the war industries of such- and-such a citv. Now the Tommies and the Doughboys stroll about the streets and take snapshots of ruins which not long ago the reconnaissance aircraft had to photograph from five miles up in the air. Mostly these snap- shots show that the damage done by. the bombs was underestimated rather than exaggerated. In last week's news one achievement stands out, even among the many DECOY DUCK : A Superfortresspainted on.a Japanese airfield to such a scale as to appear to be flying atseveral hundred feet. A battery of A.A. guns were ready to take on anybodywho had a look-see. notable successes of which we read every day. The " pocket battleship," Admiral Scheer, was sunk in the inner dock basin at Kiel on April 9th by Bomber Command. She had moved to Gdynia, but when the Russians were on the point of capturing that port she returned to Kiel. While she was in the Baltic, and at liberty to slip northwards up the coast of Nor- way she was a potential danger to our convoys going to and from Murmansk.
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