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Show AIR RAIDS BLASTING GERMANY The spectacular British aerial attacks upon the Rhineland give a pattern of the aerial offensive that British air leaders have in mind. It is difficult to visualize the effect of 3,000 tons of bombs dropped in one raid upon one city. This is a much larger amount of explosives than that which fell on London and Coventry in 1940 and 19 11. The Germans, it is estimated, used around 600 planes in these mass attacks. While the British have doubled the number of planes, experts say that the bombers used by the British have four times the carrying capacity of the largest larg-est air force ever before concentrated on a single objective. From London comes the news that Air Marshal Harris says that it is operationally possible to use forces five times greater than those already used, particularly when American bomber forces are ready to fly against the Reich. It is said that Marshal Harris Har-ris is of the opinion that 1,000 planes over Germany every night would "end the war by Autumn." He adds that if he could send 20,000 bombers over Germany in a single night, the war would end "the next morning." morn-ing." While it is hardly possible to conclude the struggle by the mass use of airplanes, it is not too much to say that such raids, carried out regularly reg-ularly against selected cities, will so cripple German Ger-man production as to cause the collapse of the German army's offensive power. |