Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1945 — Page 16

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By HELEN KIRKPATRICK, Times Foreign Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN GERMANY, April 6-German factories in the Rhineland present mute testimony to the effectiveness Jot the strategic bombing of the American air forces. * Prankfurt-Am-Main, Ludwigshafen and Mannheim on the Rhine provide opportunities to compare actual destruction with reconnaissance photographs which the airstafls study when planning air blows against German war industries, I Factory officials, left behind by stretches for 15 square miles along | their Nazi directors, who fled east-, the west bank of the Rhine, ward, testify to the paralyzing ef-| Between November, 1944 and Feb- | fort of daylight precision bombii.g. ruary of this year, 14,500 tons or Probably the most effective bomb- bombs fell on. this factory city— | ing I have seen in a survey of this 10,000 tons of which were dropped | area between Cologne and Mann- in daylight by the U. S. strategic |

heavy: attacks in this period, but) ‘The factory was frequently danipreviously both- air arms had at- aged during R. A. F. raids prior to tacked some 130 times when Sar 1944, but elaborate preparations principal targets could not o————— pA Jn

wohieved. " "FLAGS PRESENTED _ The i uk 3 sige tema?) 70 THREE SCHOOLS

building. among the 700 in this area and ‘most are tangled masses | All but seven of Indianapolis’ 90 of pipes, boilers, vats and ¢ nerete. | | public elementary schools and high The I. G. Farben factory*was the |schools have won schools-at-war biggest expermental wotke in Ger- | flags, x many, as well as the producer of| School 77-at 401 N. Arlington ave. { dyestuffs, explosives, cases, - buna achieved 90 per cent in pupils’ parrubber and synthetic oil. | ticipation in war stamp purchases 1t employed 40,000 workers at its] last Friday. Schools 6 at 702 Union peak. Its dyes, sold to neutr ‘als st. with 90 per cent and school 42

alwlys permitted repairs to be made quickly, and it maintained its production. Even workers whose homés {had been bombed showed™ up for | work as the Nazis had built massive concrete underground. shelters in 1937 and 1938. Despite the fact that Ludwigshaven: was ‘05 per cent destroyed, loss of life was apparently very

low. But when daylight, raids began, the production curve began diving. Up to last September, repairs kept

production dipped down to about 10 per cent of normal. Mannheim Wiped Out Across the river industrial Mann-| heim is nonexistent save for 3 few residences on the outskirts of the town. Like the rest of the industrial areas, it looks like a Wellsian picture of “the shape of things to come.” Frankfurt's marshaling yards, Continental rubber works, Adler ar-

mored vehicle factory, Toves aircraft factory and Heddernheim en-

At Heddernheim, parts for jet propulsion planes and V-2's were made. This plant was knocked out completely at the end of last year [white Toves ceased operating altogether nine months ago. The Adler works have been badly | bombed, but one section was missed and. armored vehicles were-still on {the assembly line when we entered

| the city. The ball-bearing plant (had not been operating for a year. Plane Plants Knocked Out

All aircraft component parts fac-

tions of the Luftwagig' s diminishing strength. “The extent to which the* Ger mans had prepared deep Eoncrete shelters in the year before Poland was attacked presents striking evidence of their intentions. And one of their great concerns for the fue

ture is the reconstruction of big in« dustries like I. G. Farbén, which « have left key men behind to try to protect their works and report | to their head men all the activities. of the allies in connection with these factories.

gineering works, were more or less! effectively bombed.

pace with damage, After that, damage began to get out of hand and

tories -were thoroughly knocked out. They are impressive explana-

heim, is Ludwigshaven, where I. G. air forces during 15 attacks. | brought in ‘valuable foreign ex- at 1002 W. 25th st. with 96 per cent Farben's biggest chemical! works! The Royal air force made three! change. were reported this week,

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