ITALIAM TARGETS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1943, Page 3

ITALIAM TARGETS

YUGOSLAVIA BOMBED Allies Raid Factories And Communications British Official Wireless Rec. 11.30 a.m. RUGBY, Dec. 20. Key points of railway communications at Foligno, Pergugia and Trezzo, in Central Italy, were subjected to sharp and effective attacks by medium bombers. Ternia railway junction was also well covered with bomb strikes. Medium anfl light aircraft were active over the ground in the battle area. Various harbour and shipping targets in the Adriatic and off the west coast of Italy were attacked. They included Split, in Yugoslavia, and Civitavecchia, north of Rome. ■ During these and . other operations 43 enemy aircraft were destroyed. Sixteen of our aircraft failed to return to base, but some of these are believed to have landed in friendly territor3 r . Marauders attacked railway marshalling yards north of Rome and hit Perugia, Arezzo and Foligno after having flown through heavy flak, but without encountering enemy fighters. Mitchell bombers hit the railway junction at Terni, in Central Italy. Fighter-bombers delivered another attack on Civitavecchia, hitting factories supply dumps and communications. They produced an explosion in a factory north of the town. Spitfires destroyed six enemy aircraft in dogfights north of the Fifth Army battle line. Others strafed a train in front of the Eighth Army, causing a freight car to explode and setting fire to an entire tram.