HEAVY DAMAGE
ITALIAN RAILWAYS
FURTHER ALLIED RAIDS
LONDON, August 24,
Allied bombers have struck at further railway targets in southern Italy. In daylight yesterday, American heavy bombers went for the railway yards at a big junction south of Naples without meeting a single enemy fighter, but on the east coast American Liberators from the Middle East, raiding the railway and marshalling yards at Bari, ran into strong opposition. The Liberators shot down 14 of the enemy without loss to themselves.
At night R.A.F. Wellingtons attacked a railway near Naples. A correspondent at Allied headquarters says that photographs show extensive damage to the railways in central and southern Italy. The lines to Naples have been cut and put out of action. . In Sicily, enemy bombers tried to raid the Palermo area on Sunday night. Four were shot down.
One Allied plane is missing from yesterday's raids. In the eastern Mediterranean R.A.F. Wellingtons from bases in the Middle East yesterday flew to the Italian island of Rhodes to bomb the barracks. All returned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 48, 25 August 1943, Page 5
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