A large force of R.A.F. Halifaxes spent 90 minutes of one night last week in a concentrated pounding (with six-tonners) of Watten, on the Pas-de-Calais coast. The targets: launching sites for the expected elephant-sized Nazi V-2 rocket bomb.
This and other such heavy bombings were notice that the Allies take seriously the Nazi promise of a new civilian terror weapon. British censors let pass a commentator's statement that Paul Joseph Goebbels' ecstatic threats about new weapons "may not be sheer propaganda."
Also censor-passed: an "unauthenticated" description of the rocket bomb by a Reuters correspondent...
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