Sixty thousand men & women labored through a cold winter's day in Britain last week. Seven thousand R.A.F. men listened to briefings. Then from airdromes all over England, 1,000 monster Lan-casters and Halifaxes sped for Berlin in their first big mission in 15 days.
The Luiftwaffe's night fighters climbed briskly to 30,000 feet. Berlin's anti-aircraft cannon hammered with fury and 43 of the four-engined bombers were downed. But within the space of half an hour 2,800 tons of explosives plummeted into the torn city90 tons a minute. As the armada headed home, smoke from the fires of Germany's capital...