Show 1036 British Bombers Smash At Essen Nazi Arsenal City Many Fires Blaze In Arms Plants In Wake of Attack Only 35 R A F Planes Fail to Fliers Continue Air Offensive In One ne of Heaviest Day Raids of War LONDON June 2 UP Great UP-Great Great Britain's civilian defense f forces Tuesday night received orders to stand by for the danger that Adolf Hitler's may attempt scale large-scale reprisals for the R A F's raids on Cologne and Essen FOLKSTONE England June 2 3 UP Great W-Great Great forces of v R It RAF A F planes roared across the channel Tuesday in forays j J J which southeast coast observers called of th the one biggest daylight day day- light operations of the war LONDON June 2 The UP The The R. R RAF A F turned the lethal devastating devastating devastating devas- devas v tating might of 1036 R RAF A AF F planes loose on Monday night almost all all of f them on the region of the nazi a arsenal enal city of Essen Prime Minister ister Churchill Church ll announced Tuesday The s second co dof of the crushing raids which the R RAF A F has made against the sources sources sources' of ot Adolf Hitler's military strength in three days daya struck at the home of the e huge Krupp mun munitions works and Churchill promised that more more of even greater severity would f follow llo when h we shall bc air f forces c n. n we are re joined as we soon by the theair s of the the- United States Stats x v The Essen raid came after a pause of but one but one night when bad badI I weather held the R ft A F's great carrying bomb air r armada armad grou ground grounded d I I ed cd after the mammoth attack by considerably bly more more than 1000 1000 British bombers on Cologne S 35 British Bombers Missing After Raid S I Again British losses were relatively slight for an air offensive offensive offensive offen offen- sive of such magnitude Chu Churchill said 35 bombers bomber had failed to I S S return t tHe S. S He told the house of commons that the raiders had S sown n nu numerous nil nil- and widespread fires Monday night and that the the two two raids introduced a new phase in m n tl air offensive against I Germany which will put the enemy to an ordeal the like of which never has been experienced in any country in continuity severity or r magnitude S 5 He cautioned the British however not to expect all future raids to be above the four-figure four scale in hi number of planes adding that methods of attack will willbe be continually varied acc according according accord accord- rd- rd ing to circumstances S SR R RAF A F Blasts Bases Along Raiders' Raiders Path S The air ministry's disclosure that aircraft of the bomb bomber r fighter coastal and army cooperation commands attacked enemy I bases in Germany France and the low countries s to guard the route route of the Essen raiders indicated that the nights night's s operations may have he been en of a magnitude possibly equaling the startling strength of the Cologne assault Its said Last night a force of a thousand aircraft of the bomber command continued the offensive against western Germany The Th main objectives were war industries of the Ruhr including Essen Preliminary reports of the crews indicate that the attacks were pressed home most eff C- C lively During the attack on the Ruhr aircraft of the bomber fighter and army cooperation c commands attacked enemy airdromes air air- In in Germany France and the low countries Thirty five of our aircraft c are are rc missing from all these opera opera- These losses were nine fewer than the 44 of Saturday nightS night night- S Continued on Page Pae Two Column One 1036 BOMBERS i ATTACK ESSEN I Continued from P PallOne g One still far below the 10 per cent k losses which military authorities generally agree can be he afforded J by a successful a air smash it 1 On a a. basis of comparison with the Cologne attack Essen probably ably was waa deluged under about 6 6 pounds of Incendiary am and and explosive b bombs poured down dOWD from planes manned by men fliers Canadian Cana fliers it was announced announced an an- officially again were at al atthe althe atthe the controls of some of the giant four and Sand lighter and I Some of these planes places among them craft which were back in inaction inaction i Cor Cologne Cologne Co Co- Co- Co action after having been over r logne in the R RAF's A F's first ponderous ponder ponder- ous blow can carry four tons of missiles Other Planes Go Co Hunting While the thousand bombers were hauling their deadly freight to the Ruhr one e of f the largest Intruder forces of the war- war composed of ot made American Boston Boston Bos BOa ton and Hurricane fighter bombers bomb bomb- ers went ers went hunting over the intervening intervening intervening inter inter- occupied territory as they did on the night of the operations ns against Cologne Drawing to themselves the attention at at- of the German antiaircraft gunners runners these forces bombed several several sev- sev sev era eral airfields to blank out the night fighter defense and attacked shipping and railroads in Holland Belgium and France One Dornier bomber was re reported reported reported re- re ported shot down over Holland and several other German planes damaged The air ministry news service announced that Spitfires and carrying bomb-carrying Hurricanes made a scale large-scale sweep over the Gravelines Gravelines Gravelines Grave- Grave lines and area in northern northern north north- em ern France Tuesday morning shooting down one Fock Wolff and damaging several others Rout German Planes One Spitfire section drove oft off offa a force of German planes which outnumbered them four to one the news service said while another another another an an- other section tired of looking in vain for an air fight dropped to ground level to shoot up and German troops Hardly before the last of the night bombers had rolled down on their home bases the day shift of Britain's up stepped-up offensive was in the clear air streaking forthe forthe for forthe the French coast Just as the Germans German sought to repay for the desolation of Cologne Cologne Cologne Co Co- Co- Co logne with a retaliatory attack Sunday night on the the ancient Cathedral cathedral cathedral ca ca- thedral city of Canterbury they announced Tuesday that another world old-world English town Ipswich I had been the target of their night air blows Although the R It RAF's A F's bombers on which the British rely to paralyze para para- 1 Ze Germanys Germany's war industries city by city encountered mist they were said to have hav hit hard hardat hardat hardat at their targets in Essen and it its environs Carry Jarry U U. S. S Observers United States observers were believed to over oyer again with the R RAP RAF A F They were were- preparing presumably presumably bly for what Lieutenant General Henry H. H Arnold chief of the United States army air force forced Monday Monday Monday Mon Mon- day called the hope of American fliers very soon to fly and fight t beside the R A F 1 in attacks which the Germans cannot meet defeat defeat de de- de- de feat or survive Ess Essen n a manufacturing city noted chiefly for vital iron and steel works of the Krupp industries indus indus- tries lies on the Ruhr river inthe in inthe inthe the Prussian n Rhine province about 35 miles northeast of Cologne on the main line of a railway to t Ber Ber- lin un Railroads radiate from Essen Essen Es Es- sen to all the principal towns of the iron and coal fields British bombers already had struck at the city repeatedly since bombing of th tl the continent was begun begun begun be be- gun on a relatively small scale in 1940 First Cologne Then Es Essen e 1 and Then n Hitler Wonders Wonders' J I- I 0 f MILES 1 S j J I L r f L t I ti i-ti OSLO 1 II I I 0 C C A N I I a I ESTONIA I I p o S S S. S R. R WARSAW f. f CL tSEN POLAND I I GERMANY I I I 1 Jl ROMANIA LII L- L t tC C BUCHAREST 8 L Ar d' d II K SEA aIa 11 I r Cv A ECE TURKEY 4 N I CILY ATTACK RANGE ru AIR PURSUIT 1 tf MILES s. s MEDIUM fc f-fc- l MILES BOMB BOMBER ER HEAVY ERi i 4 1500 MILES BOMBER A EGYPT Associated Press Map Map lap details approximate range respectively o 0 of t. t pursuit medium bomber and heavy bomber planes based on England Much of the reich I is s within reach of the R A F which soon willbe will willbe willbe be accompanied d by planes of the American al air r forc force |