ATTACK ON RUHR
AIMS OF BOMBER COMMAND. “When the Germans bombed London and other British cities, as well as Warsaw, Belgrade, and Rotteidam, -they were using air power chiefly as a weapon to destroy the courage of civilians. Bomber Command on the other hand is working to a definite plan of war, because in the Ruhr basin lies the great storehouse of German military powei. Without it a third of their power to make war would be gone and we have given fair warning to the men and women who tend the machines that we are out to destroy that power utterly. The German High Command is under no illusion. It knows that this battle may well prove decisive. To the defence of the battlefield they have summoned many thousands of anti-air-craft guns, they have lighted the night skies with great batteries of searchlights and they have called on many squadrons of night fighters to take up the challenge. The Ruhr is the most heavily defended area in the world and the task that Bomber Command has set itself is hard.”—From a 8.8. C. talk to overseas listeners.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1943, Page 4
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188ATTACK ON RUHR Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1943, Page 4
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