DAMAGE & DEATHS
IN BOMBED GERMAN CITIES AN AMERICAN ESTIMATE AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION CUT HEAVILY (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day. 10.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, December 10. Allied bombing has reduced German production to 1,500 planes monthly, most fighters, said Colonel Ray Clifton, instructor at the Fort Leavensworth General Staff School. The formation of five infantry divisions from Luftwaffe personnel indicates a German aircraft shortage. Colonel Clifton listed the following damage to German industrial centres: Essen, 75 per cent destroyed; Emden, 60 per cent town and dock areas destroyed; Bremen, 20 per cent; Lubeck, 40 per cent; Rostock, 70 per cent destroyed; Dusseldorf, 75 per cent destroyed, 80 per cent of the people homeless, 25,000 killed; Cologne, 60 per cent destroyed; Hamburg, 75 per cent destroyed, 15,000 to 20.,000 killed. 35,000 homeless; Lorient, mostly destroyed, heavy concrete submarine base working at 20 per cent capacity; Berlin, widespread damage, quarter of a million people fled in September, in addition to half a million living outside the city.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1943, Page 4
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