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| | Mission 25: Braunschweige (Brunswick), Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Brunswick, 120 miles west of Berlin, was sledge-hammered by a force of Fortresses and Liberators almost as great as the record fleet of more than 800 heavy U.S. bombers which in daylight Saturday dumped a record 1,800 tons of high explosives and incendiaries onto Frankfurt, in the southwestern Reich. |
 | | In the attack on Brunswick, Capt. Walker Mahurin, of Fort Wayne, Ind., leading ETO ace, boosted his total to 15 by shooting down a Ju88, and Maj. Walter C. Beckham, of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., second high scorer in the ETO, got an Me109, bringing his total to 14. |
 | | In Frankfurt, chief railway junction for western Germany, some 500,000 persons are engaged directly or indirectly in transportation, in manufacturing chemical and machine tools for the Wehrmacht and in the distribution of supplies which funnel into the city's inland port at the juncture of the Main and Rhine rivers. |
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