American bombers fire German aircraft engine works.

American bombers fire German aircraft engine works. Dense clouds of smoke billow skyward as a compact cluster of bombs strikes the Henschel aircraft engine works at Kassel in Western Germany during a recent raid by Flying Fortresses of the Eighth U.S. Army Air Force. General Henry H. Arnold, commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces, reported on May 9, 1944, that American airmen had flown 66,000 sorties over Germany and German-occupied Europe and dropped 57,000 tons of bombs during a single month in 1944.