In 1918, after four years of blockade, German industry was down 30%. Today it is off precisely the same percent on the tally sheets of Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfareand half the drop has occurred in the six months since Allied air power grew up. This week the Eighth Air Force tabulated its daytime share of the bag.
The record was an argument for daytime precision bombing. It was also a lesson in the limitations of all bombing: many a city and installation (Emden, Hüls), supposedly devastated, was still a going target for more...
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