The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-02
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 age of 3.S7S, in the Essen attack as compared to 2.93 per cent of the i,5OO planes used Saturday night when Cologne was smashed and many thousands of refugees forced from the Rhineland industrial sec tor.
 Hit All War Centers
 But the estimated 250,000 workers in the Krupp plants, which have been raided AS times since the war started, merely felt the weight of vast bomb loads which henceforth will be aimed against all of the big Nazi war centers, air circles said.
 Not only did Cologne refugees ar- irving at Essen, 35 miles away, go through second night of terrible destruction, but the home front services still fighting fires at Cologne probably could hear the explosions and see the flames at the Krupp works during the night. And such cities as Duisburg, Bochur1, Eberfeld and the areas near DueS- seldorft may expect what the Brit ish term "a lot of very unpleasant surprises in the near future"
 The steady, relentless pounding which the RAF envisages with American aid this summer was il- frustrated by the renewal of daylight raids today, when the air ministry said that British fighters made a large scale sweep over the Crave lines -Hardelot area of the French coast.
 Frantic German Efforts
 The increasing tempo of the RAF attacks was received with erthusi- asm by the British public and newsr papers, which emphasized Berlin radio reports telling of frantic ef- forts to strengthen the air raids precautions forces in the Reich.
 Britons remember the days when they faced onslaughts by hundreds | of enemy bombers and the paper vendor at the gates of the ministry of information summed 1t up with the remark:
 "It's bloody marvellous"
 The air moinistry said that a big force of British planes drew Ger man gun fire on the Hanks of the main raid on the Ruhr by bombing airfields and attacking railroads and shipping in Holland, Belgium and France, and shot down German Dornier-217. A Dutch train was machine gunned until 1t stopped.
 Douglas Boston bombers were iIl- cluded in this force.
 Army cooperation planes dis located enemy fighter stations in the Ruhr region throughout the night.
 2,O00 to A,OOO Nightly
 A senior intelligence ot1cer an- nounced that there was mo reason whatsoever" why Britain should not send 2,00O, even 4,000 bombers over Germany every night. Only bad weather prevented 8 1000 plane raid on Germany Sunday night, like the one that pulverized Cologne Saturday night.
 Prime Minister Winston Churchill himself announced to cheering House of Commons the exact num- Der of planes that engaged in last nights attack and said nearly all of them had hurled their bombs, explosive and incendiary, on the Es- sen region, which for generations had been the greatest German armament center.
 First reports indicated that many huge fires were burning throughout the bombed region, he said.
 He announced that 35 British bombers were missing. This com- pared with A in the Cologne rad.
 This was a loss of only 3.373 per cent of the planes engaged, against 2.93 per cent in the Cologne raid. Air force leaders, in planning the Cologne raid, anticipated a loss of 6 per cent; 10 per cent is the ceil- ing beyond which attacks become too costly.
 It was emphasized, to show the growing might of the Royal Air Force, that every plane used last night was British made.
 The four-motored giants, after dropping the!r loads of from i've to eight tons each on the Ruhr, had hardly returned to base, when swarms of bomber and fighter planes raced across the Dover strait in this mornings daylight to con- tinue what was again a round the clock offensive.
 Fires Like Cologne
 The reports of returning pilots indicate that great areas of the Krupp works had been shattered by more than 5000 tons of bombs 6,720, 900 pounds. The pilots said the fires compared to those set at Cologne.
 Demolition bombs, some weighing two tons or more, were mixed with incendiary bombs.
 The last raid was made on Essen March 25, when the Krupp works were likewise the target
 German planes, in second sav- age but small scale vengeance rad, attacked ancient Ipswich, 66 miles northeast of London, where Cardi- nal Wolsey was born and where Charles II hid from Cromwell's men after the battle of Worcester. MVRVNY A AYyWN YRTRTTRR