Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-15

map.
In fact, many Of the key Ger
man centers Notwithstanding the
entire Ruhr industrial area--are
within easy reach Of medium
bombers which usually have a
round trip range Of about 1900
miles.
SEEKS COUNTER DRIVE
As Hitler scans the German
sldes anxiously wondering where
the next bomb loads will drop, he
n undoubtedly trying with fren-
Kied haste to engineer some mill
cary counter stroke before the
Threaded American Flying For
dresses Join with the Raj In a
Spntiunous about aerial blitz.
Hitler has only to look at the
Industrial map of Germany to be-
come fully aware of the paralyzing
effect such mass air raids will have
on his chief war production CEN
tiers. The prelude of what is to
come has already been clearly
demonstrated TO him at Cologne,
Essen. Bremen, Hamburg and
Rostock.
There is no question but that
bombing Of all the key targets In
Germany on the same scale will
speed the collapse OF Hitler's
vaunted war machine at its most
vulnerable roots.
IMAGINE HIS THOUGHTS
II d easy to imagine Hitler
these nights. restlessly pacing the
floor OF his Berlin chancellory and
nervously matching the incoming
reports handed him hourly by the
Nazi air ministry. On his wall
map Of Germany, the already
blitzed cities must glare at him
like disturbing headlights Of an
approaching doom.
But that Is not all. The Nazi
dictator tries to guess where the
thunder will strike next and what
TO do to psotect the targets for
tomorrow"
IT might be the Ruhr again with
Its giant war industries which
have been hard hit despite all
efforts at camoufiage and tricky
disguise.
Or 1t might be Berlin itself.
For example. the smoking ruins
Of Berlin to Hitler not only would
spell a catastrophe blow to Ger
man morale but would rob him Of
vital war industries.
That city of 100000 is work.
ing day and night at the produc-
ton Of intricate war machinery Of
all kinds. Of plane parts, bomb
sights, periscopes, chemicals and
small arms,
Is NAZI NERVE CENTER
The railway and highway net
spreading from there leads 10 all
Of Maxi Europe and forms a nerve
renter OF Maxi communications.
Sixty large and small airfields
surrounding Berlin help the luft-
waffe's operating capacity more
than any other section Of Ger
many.
Then there Is Linz, in former
Austria, transformed from a
peaceable Tyrolean town into the
center Of one Of the most impor-
tant steel-producing areas In Nazi-
land.
In the vicinity of Linz is the
vast new Hermann Goering Iron
and Steel works-built from the
ground up during the last few
years to supplement In that sup
posed1y ''bombproof' region the
Krupp plant at Essen and else
where In the Ruhr.
Tanks, guns, shells and steel
plates for naval craft of all kinds
pour out of Linz.
Winging In an arc over the
North Sea from England to avoid
the Maxi Land air defenses, heavy
bonbers could hit hard at Gdynia,
the hunrming Nazi naval work
shop renamed Gotenhafen by the
Nazis after the fall of Poland.
CLOSE TO DANZIG
IT n situated q few miles from
Danzig and Is comparable in size
and Importance TO the Brooklyn
navy yard In Cdynia, the Ger
mans have submarine assembly
plants. vast naval shipyards and
plants engaged in turning out all
kinds OF naval supplies.
Then there Is Posen, In the for
fner Polish corridor, with its mill
tary arsenals, its machinery shops
and locomotive roundhouses. In
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