Hermann Göring wanted to launch an all-out aerial bombardment on the city centre.
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Twelve specially-adapted floatplanes—Heinkel He 59Ds—would land on the Nieuwe Maas with two platoons of the 11th Company of the 16th Air Landing Regiment, plus four engineers and a three man company troop.
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