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each capable OF carrying four
two-ton blockbusters - wer e
officially reported TO have par
ticipated in the blows against
the Rhineland.
The ministry described the
attack as heavy" but did not
indicate the actual number Of
planes participating.
The thunderous series of
bombings was acclaimed by air
chief Marshall Sir Arthur Har-
ris, head of the Raj bomber
command, as the beginning of a
campaign TO bust Germany
wide OPEN
Psychologically the raids gave
weight TO the historic parley be-
tween President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill at
Casablanca, where they and
their military leaders laid plans
for more intense prosecution
of the war by land, sea and air.
The Berlin radio reported
that the Raj attack last night
was directed against the North
German coastal area and said
eight of the raiders were shot
Mountaineering that the num-
Der OF planes participating prob
ably was fairly large.
The same area was given a
heavy pounding yesterday as
sWarms of United States flying
fortresses and Liberators ham
mered the naval base at Will
helmshaven and related indus
tries at nearby Emden.
While the American planes
were thus engaged, mosquito
bombers of the Raj subjected
the Danish capital of Copen-
hagen to its first bombing, strik-
ing at factories turning out war
materials for the Germans.
The previous night British
bombers had raided the German
submarine base at Lorient and
the Port of Bordeaux in occu-
pied France.
In contrast with the wide
scope of Allied aerial operations,
not a single German plane was
reported over Britain through
out last night.
Observers said the stepped
up Allied air offensive, with the
Raj carrying the war to Ger
many by night and the US.
Army air forces by day, would
bring home to the German peo-
Pile the fact that their once
Wanted air force no longer has
control of the air in the west.
It was expected that the raids
on Europe by British based
bombers soon would be supple
mented by air attacks from
newly-won Allied bases in
North Africa.
The first all-American raid
against Germany proper yester-
day involved a round-trip flight
of some 800 miles for the flying
fortresses which struck at Will
helmshaven. The Liberators car
ried out the assault on Emden
in a surprise follow-up to this
blow.
Three of the American bomb
ers failed to return from the
forays, which were carried out
without fighter escort, but US.
headquarters said the Ameri-
cans shot down a number of
German planes attempting to in
tercept them.
Airmen who participated in
the raids said they had encoun-
tered surprisingly little opposi-
ton, though e Germans
maintained they had blunted the
attack and shot down eight of
the raiders.
The main target of the Raj
bombers which attacked Copen-
hagen were factories engaged in
turning out Diesel engines for
Nazi submarines. Dispatches
from Stockholm, Sweden, said
that two big factories in the
Danish capital had been set afire
and that five persons were killed
and so injured.
1t was feared, the Stockholm
reports said, that an examina-
ton of the ruins would disclose
an even larger toll Of casualties.
Damage in the bombed sec
tons of Copenhagen, these
sources declared, necessitated
the removal of some 1000 per-
sons to public buildings taken
over as emergency shelters.
In addition to bombing Cop
enhagen British planes also at
tackled railway targets in north
ern France and enemy shipping
off the Dutch coast yesterday.
Only one Raj plane was re-