SHATTERING RAIDS ON BALKAN TARGETS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13430, 18 April 1944, Page 5

SHATTERING RAIDS ON BALKAN TARGETS

VTT iL ENEMY CENTRES BOMBED BY ' ALLIED AIRCRAFT

MEDITERRANEAN force strikes telling blows IN SUPPORT OF THE RUSSIANS

tttPHT different supply points hit U IN LATEST ATTACK

London, April 17. .]• I ] iea vy bombers from Italy have hit at eight important "r supply centres in the Balkans in the past two days, and two twice. They are centres from which the Axis troops r^] ]( , pnssians in the smith are being maintained. J ’ acin 7 L fiieni. Buzan, is only 120 miles in a direct line from M Kornev's most advanced forces in the Carpathian footT n>l 0 £ t ] ]P targets are vital centres for the enemy. They • i I Budapest, the Hungarian capital, Belgrade and Nish in v »slavia and Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, Turnu-Severin, a ra ihvay town and port on the Danube, and Ploesti. ?tU,1 T]ie latest attacks were made in daylight to-day by Portresses liberators. They bombed railway yards at Sofia, and attacked o. J ] targets in Belgrade, the German-occupied capital of YngoT'-’’ It was the second raid on this area in two days. To-day fe'bombers attac ked airfields, railway yards and two factories ‘d-iiw aircraft components. ina pA,] y tjjjg morning R.A.F. Wellingtons and Liberators bombed T 1 ln ‘‘ i o-oin" for an armament factory as well as rail targets. 12, 000-pound block busters. Yesterday took American heavy bombers to Bnban and other tamcan heavy aircraft went, for Turmi-Sewriii. Bucharest, the Knmaman capital and Ploesti, the oil centre, . e B o th targets for onr heavy bombers on Saturday. jlediuni and fighter-bombers continued their attacks on ways and bridges yesterday and shipping targets along the Yugoslav coast were also attacked. The Mediterranean Allied Air Force lost 13 planes in over IS flights and destroyed 14 enemy aircraft.