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... industry slackened during May , with only 240 effective sorties and 1,129 tons of bombs dropped on three missions . Not only were there fewer missions against that kind of target , but they were less effective . Thus the major damage to ...
... industry slackened during May , with only 240 effective sorties and 1,129 tons of bombs dropped on three missions . Not only were there fewer missions against that kind of target , but they were less effective . Thus the major damage to ...
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... industry , which received 9 percent of its total tonnage , and 44 percent of that aimed at industrial targets . In all , American airmen used 2,838 bomber sorties to drop just over 16,000 tons of bombs on this target system , at a cost ...
... industry , which received 9 percent of its total tonnage , and 44 percent of that aimed at industrial targets . In all , American airmen used 2,838 bomber sorties to drop just over 16,000 tons of bombs on this target system , at a cost ...
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... Industrial Towns Schedule , By Towns , of Attacks and Devastation , Graph 11 , PRO Air 14/1962 , XP / 1036 . 3. Masuo Kato , The Lost War ( New York : Knopf , 1946 ) , 215 . 4. USSBS , " The Aircraft Industry , " 1947 , 2 , 21 , 109–10 ...
... Industrial Towns Schedule , By Towns , of Attacks and Devastation , Graph 11 , PRO Air 14/1962 , XP / 1036 . 3. Masuo Kato , The Lost War ( New York : Knopf , 1946 ) , 215 . 4. USSBS , " The Aircraft Industry , " 1947 , 2 , 21 , 109–10 ...
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Target for Strategic Bombing | 36 |
Best Bomber | 55 |
Operations | 84 |
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