The Wilmington morning star., 1945-03-15
Raj Weapon
Called Most
Devastating
Huge Missile Able To. Oh
Iiterate Seven To
Nine Blocks

LONDON. Thursday, March IS =
,P-New 11-ton super-obliterating
hoobs more than IS feet long-the
S destructive weapon of the
ror-were hurled at Germany yes
t s as 1000 Allied heavy bomb
srs in day and night assaults on
tbp Reich carried the victory
hitz" into its 31st day today.
sbortlv before midnight, Raj
bpavv bombers carried out heavy
stacks on Zweibruecken and
Homburg. Is miles east of Saar-
bruecken. both of which are pack
Cd with German troops and mill
tarv stores, while Raj Mosquitoes
attacked Berlin for the 23rd con-
secutive night in the great round
the.clock offensive.
The .world-shaker" bombs-so
large that Britain's biggest bomb
ers had to be rebuilt to carry them
were dropped on the railway via
duct at Bielefeld. carrying one OF
the last remaining double track
railways out of the bomb-desolated
Ruhr to the rest of Germany. Six
ton bombs were dropped on a rail-
wav yiaduct in the Arnsburg area
leading east from DortHnund.
Unofficial estimates said the
bomb. designed primarily for use
against Nazi underground targets,
could obliterate from seven to nine
civ blocks. 1t was said to be two
and one half times as destructive
as the six-ton Earthquake bomb, .
once heralded as the worlds most
potent weapon.
Remodelled Lancasters, whose
bomb bays had to be enlarged to
accommodate the missiles nearly
four feet in diameter and Is feet
5 inches long, were part of more
than 5000 Allied heavy bombers
which scourged Germany and Hun
gary by daylight.
The bomb was Immediately nick
named Ten Ton Tess" by the
British Press biased on the Brit
sh 2,240 pound TONI
A Canadian flight engineer who
went along on the raid said there
was a tremendous pail of black
smoke and a fountain of debris"
when the super-bombs hit.
An Raj pilot who dropped on7
Of the new bombs said the force OF
the explosion lifted his plane over
500 feet.
As it burst it felt as though
someone had hit me severely in
the back" he said. I didn't 'ax-
pect a kick quite so soon. The
force of the explosion caused a
pam in my spine which lasted
AlOIe IMAM a minute.
HIS bombardier said he was shot
up IRON the floor and came down
WIN a bang that knocked him
breathless.
The bomb exploded with a fam
laStic flash and was at once smoth-
efed by high column of smoke"
The pilot said.
The blast dwarfed even the ter
.lllc explosions of the $4,000 poun-
uefS which also were dropped in
NE attack" he said.
Inc new bomb was British-de-
sAShed, but American firms are
;allplAg to produce it, the Air Min
Ntry said.
Inc U. S. Eighth Air Force
Mounted one of its most diversi-
lleo attacks on Germany as 1t.
q e- James H. Doolittle sent out
en- e:1'o heavy bombers escorted by
~ Wv n9hters to hammer at least
st,, I0Ject4Ves, while the RAJ
s snS benzol plants at Bochum
anu Recklinghausen.
liz -Ne German radio reported AL
night. e AoA 01 ~
u f o the third time in 10 days
er q, D. 10, 10Th Air Force heavy bomb
49, tls rom Italy struck the Almas-
H F11o and Sony oil refineries in
hlulgary' Both are near the Red
p T3lihy front between Komaron and
inv 0peSt' The have been supply
ca 9 gasoline to German motorized
ID sixteen ,es German Me-10ss attack
WIKI VI I'm Air Force Thunderbolts
di r1rn were escorting Mitchell me-
IN mum n oombers near Lake Garda
wbi northern Italy. In the battle
'n followed. one German fight
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