MUNICH A MEMORY
BLASTED BY BOMBERS Italy-Based Aircraft Make Devastating. Raids N.Z. Press Association— Copyright Rec. 11.30 a.m. LONDON, July, 19. About 400 Fortresses and Liberators to-day participated in" bombing aircraft factories, aerodromes - and ordnance depots near Municn, reports the Associated Press correspondent at Allied Headquarters in Italy. Fires were observed after the raiders hit Milbertshofen' ordnance depot, west of Munich. The raiders ■ scored scattered hits against the Allach aircraft engine factory, seven miles north of Munich, and the adjacent aerodrome. They well covered the aircraft components factory, seven miles west of Munich.
Small formations of bombers also raided Munich railway yards. Only a few fighters challenged the raiders.
The Voelkischer Beobachter declares that Munich is only a memory as the result of the latest series of raids, and adds: "Munich's central and eastern stations no longer exist. To think that barely a year ago we never dreamed this could happen!
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 170, 20 July 1944, Page 5
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