"BLOODY MONDAY"
Berliners' Name For First Big U.S. Daylight Raid
CONSIDERED A CATASTROPHE
Rec. noon. LONDON, Mar. 8. German radio commentators admit that the daylight raid on Berlin on Monday caused very great damage indeed Oslo radio says that competent German circles considei the raid a catastrophe. Berliners refer to it as "bloody Monday. One Berlin radio commentator cpirl that as a concentrated ra a it had not attained its aim of destroying the heart of Berlin. The mam attack had been suffered by two SU The b Dany ea Mail Stockholm corresDondent, quoting an eyewitness who arrived from Berlin, says that Berliners, after the raid, believe that the 41M invasion is very near Three bomb-laden Flying Fortresses crashed near the Friedrichstrasse, potsdamerplatz and Tieigarten.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 58, 9 March 1944, Page 5
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