Bremen, second biggest port in Germany, was illuminated by a vast pool of flame on Friday night durin the third successive night raid. The attack was as heavy as if not heavier than, the first in which the city was set ablaze by 20,000 fire bombs in three and.a hal hours.
It is considered that Bremen's war output will be severely restricted for some time. Pilots report: "smoke up to 9,000 feet....20 very big fires within a single square mile....50 fires counted, fires too many to count, Bremen looked ike a gigantic illuminated Christmas tree."
'The raid lasted three hours, 'The' weather was perfect over the city.
though tad at the beginning of the flight as far as the Netherlands coast. "It was only when dense black smoke began to roll over the town and spreading fires began to blur the outlines of factories and dockyards that the pilots had any dimculty in recognising objectives,
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