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Show AERIAL ATTACKS I CONTINUE TO HARASS GERMANY The aerial offensive against Gemrany already knocked out fifteen fif-teen of fifty key industrial cities, according to Lieut. -Col. Nathaniel F. Silsbee, who believes that stra-j stra-j tegie airpower might so wreck I the German war potential as to make an invasion more like an occupation. oc-cupation. i The officer says that the purpose pur-pose of strategic bombing- by the U. S. Air Force in England is to destroy the Luftwaffe and key factories of the Nazi war industry. indus-try. The RAF attempts to destroy industrial portions of key cities in overwhelming attacks, with damaging effect on worker and general civilian morale. The bombing has attempted to knock Germany out of the war before be-fore an invasion gets underway, but, if this is impossible, the damage dam-age wrought by the bombs will do much to pave the way for an actual invasion. |