Death at Home

For the first time since the robot bomb attack started (June 15), London had a few nights free of bomb explosions. But the missiles still came over by day--which the Germans evidently considered more disrupting. Boomed German propagandists: deadlier bombardments are coming --the first month was only a trial for range.

Some of the bombs seemed to be shooting in from a more easterly direction, which might indicate that the German firing crews were moving from the bomb-battered Pas-de-Calais area to other launching sites in Belgium. The Germans talked of even larger robot bombs (six to 20 tons of explosive), claimed ranges that would carry them across the Atlantic.

The British, busy with evacuation of women and children from the capital, reconstruction of destroyed property, rescue and protection, were not laughing off such claims. The nickname "doodlebug" was frowned on as too flippant. Most Londoners called the bombs "those things."

If it gave them any comfort, civilians of the London area could compare their robot bomb casualties with those of U.S. fighting men on Saipan. But the bill for Saipan was paid in full, the casualty list closed. The roll of robot victims was still wide open.

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