RAIDS ON EUROPE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 177, 28 July 1944, Page 5

RAIDS ON EUROPE

ALBANIA AND BELGIUM Heavy Bombing Attacks From Britain And Italy Rec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, July 27. Medium forces of escorted heavy bombers to-day attacked the Manfres Weiss steel works at Budapest, the largest industrial plant in Hungary, producing aircraft engines, arms, ammunition, machine tools and other metal products, says a correspondent in Rome. The works were attacked previously by R.A.F. night bombers. The crews report good bombing and encounters with enemy aircraft on three enemy airfields.

Aircraft engine factories at Wiener Neudorf were the targets for Liberators and Flying Fortresses attacking the Vienna area yesterday. During a running battle through southern Austria and northern Yugoslavia, many enemy fighters were destroyed. The oil refinery at Berat Kucove, in Albania, was also bombed with good results.

In attacks on communications in Italy and Yugoslavia one squadron of Mustangs knocked out 38 locomotives in sweeps around the Zagreb area, bringing the fortnight's total of engines disabled to well over 100. Another formation included six troop trains in the day's bag. United States Headquarters announced that Liberators, escorted by Mustangs, Lightnings and Thunderbolts, attacked military targets in the Brussels area to-day.

The R.A.F. Second Tactical Air Force states that crews of R.A.F. and Dutch Mitchells had spectacular proof of their bombing accuracy last evening when bombs struck a great petrol store on the southern fringe of the forest of Fontainebleau, in France.

"Mosquitoes last night attacked Hamburg," states an Air Ministry communique. "Mines were laid in enemy waters. One bomber is missing."