Show British Reply e to o U- U Boat U-Boat Boat Warfare By y Blasting Submarine Plants LONDON July 13 UP The jp-The The new potency of Britain's air campaign to drive the U-boat U from the seas by smashing Germanys Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's replacements before she can get them into the water is the story behind the R A F's sensational daylight raid on Danzig Saturday That neither daylight distance nor foul weather deterred squadrons squadrons squad squad- rons of ot British bombers from sweeping low over Germany on a mile 1750 round trip in daylight showed that the nazis are exposed now to mighty air assault anywhere anywhere any any- where and at any time The test of the Danzig raid is comparison with the dramatic daylight daylight day day- light air attack on the German submarine plant at Augsburg just last April Only 12 planes made that stab only about half as far from home as the former free city and only five returned Lose Only Three Planes The attack on Danzig cost but three planes and unofficial indications indications indi indi- that this was less than 5 per cent of the attacking force meant that at least 60 bombers made it On this longest and riskiest daylight daylight daylight day day- light operation by the R RAF A F so far the British sent out their Lancaster Lan Lan- caster great caster great motored four bombers bomb bomb- ers newest highly secret bomb bomb- carriers in their air fleet For hours these tough planes I I flew over Germans German's heavily guard guard- guarded ed coast before they sliced down downto to lay heavy bombs on Danzig's submarine yards In the bright light of the northern evening Other bombers at the same time raided another boat U-boat base Flensburg Flensburg Flens Flens- burg on the German Danish border border bor bor- border der miles nearer England than Danzig To get to Danzig the British bombers had to buck thunderstorms thunderstorms thunderstorms thunder thunder- storms treacherous winds and icing for hours hour over Germanys Germany's studded defense-studded home precincts This sweep was far smaller than the plane 1000 raids on Bremen Cologne and Essen but like them it added a new problem to Germanys Germany's worries about air defense Nazi Cities in Raid Zone Flying no farther than Danzig R RAF A F planes could reach almost any city in Germany strike into Poland almost to Warsaw into Italy almost to Rome and hit targets in western Slovakia Hungary Hungary Hun Hun- gary or Yugoslavia By its stroke the R RAF A F expunged expunged ex ex- Danzig from Germanys Germany's list of safe cities The Germans had been making the most of its U-boat U building facilities but now neither it nor other remote industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial centers are beyond the R A F's long arm Danzig had been hit only once before on the night of November 10 30 1940 Danzig was added to a growing list of R A F targets of this spring and summer in hitting against Hitler's Hitler's Hitler's Hit Hit- lers ler's boat U-boat hatcheries Others have been Bremen one of the big big- gest which has been bombed four times Emden Wilhel Wilhelmshaven shaven Kiel Rostok and Hamburg and Stuttgart where instrument are made for undersea navigation Bad weather over the continent prevented the R RAF A F from followIng follow follow- following ing up the Danzig assault with another another another an an- other raid on Germany during the night the British said |