Show A Taste of Bitter Medicine AGAIN A GAIN the British air force sets a new worlds world's record for a devastating air bom bom- The latest shattering record-shattering assault assault assault as as- sault on Cologne fifth largest German city with a population of three-quarters three of a mil million million lion was admitted even by the nazis to have done great damage All told 1250 planes took part in the attack attack at at- tack dropping pounds of bombs The attack was far worse than anything Germany had ever carried earned out against Britain There were twice as many planes and they dropped four times as much explosives as the nazis did in the greatest single raid raiq on Britain That explains perhaps why the German propagandists speaking over the radio radi minimized minimized minimized mini mini- the size of the attacking force claiming claiming claim claim- ing British reports of 1250 planes were fantastic fantastic fantastic fan They couldn't admit that anybody had beaten them at their own game But the Germans haven't seen anything yet They still have to hear from American air power Wait until American airmen and American planes start joining up with the R A F on these bombing excursions over Ger- Ger many many There will be new records set and broken broken constantly It wont won't be a thousand planes striking I two or three times a month but as many as planes striking a dozen or more times a month wiping month wiping whole industrial industrial indus indus- trial establishments literally off the earth utterly destroying railroad yards and highway networks blasting airdromes and supply bases and military cantonments into impo impo- tence It wont won't be just Cologne Rostock and Lubeck Lubeck Lubeck Lu- Lu beck which will suffer such shattering bombardment bombardment bom bom- but Berlin Vienna Hamburg Munich Dresden city after city factory after factory base after base until the power of nazi Germany to make war will be so crippled crippled crip crip- pled and her life so shattered that conquest will be almost welcomed by her paralyzed war machine and her battered people So far Germany has had just a taste of what is coming It is bitter medicine but the nazis are the ones who first administered it As they gave it in m spoonfuls we will give it back in bottles It will be interesting to see just how well they will take it T |