Last week Minister for Aircraf Production Lord Beaverbrook praised two boys "from the back room" who had helped design "the big beautiful bombs" which were Britain's new present to Germany: Squadron Leader Robert Henry Garner and Air Commodore Patrick Huskinson.
The nature of the bombs was naturally not divulged, but their effect was something to see. In a raid over Hamburg, a pilot who dropped one said: "After it burst I could see a great circle of red, and on the rim of it, quite a distance from the center, I saw buildings going up into the air....
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