The Archive · 1941

Built in U.S.—Flown to England—And Germany

Boekug's. four-engined Flying Fortress, long a familiar sight bearing the Stars and. Stripes, now wears the insignia of the Royal Air Force. This B. 170 type bomber is now being widely used by Britain to carry out long distance raids over Germany and similar machines, no doubt, tool: part the raids over that country on Thursday night when between 900—1,000' tons of the most devastating types of bombs were dropped on Bremen and Hamburg and elsewhere, Later reports of those raids indicate that a vast amount of damage was caused to Germany's war effort by the new bombs, which are the most deadly of any in use by any nation today,

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