Black Thursday Quotes

“And there is the sound, the one that grates deepest against the nerves, that is hellish and hated, that knifes into the brain and makes a man wince through and through. A scream, metallic, thin, and high, a slender file blade cutting through the nerves. Above all else there is this cry of the fighter racing in close, sounding a scream that can be none other. Out of the whole”
― Martin Caidin, Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid

“are months of experience, bitter and bloody. “Schweinfurt — that’s that god-damned killer town,” one officer mumbles as the order clatters from its teletype machine. Ahead are many hours of intense manipulation of men, machines, aviation gasoline, incendiary bombs, and high explosives. The coordination of the sprawling complex is truly a masterful effort, so that the VIII may spawn into the sky several hundred bombers, several thousand men, thousands of bombs, and hundreds of thousands of machine-gun bullets. Into the great”
― Martin Caidin, Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid

“dispersal of important plants following attacks upon vital points was undertaken.” The dispersal of the German bearings industry was”
― Martin Caidin, Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid