MORE AIR-BORNE LANDINGS

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24371, 25 September 1944, Page 5

MORE AIR-BORNE LANDINGS

REINFORCEMENTS AND SUPPLIES SUPPORT FOR 2ND ARMY (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) (Ppo 730 Dm.) LONDON, Sept. 24. Strong forces of the Allied Air-borne Army were successfully dropped yesterday afternoon to the 2nd Army’s drive to rehe»e marooned airborne troops. Glider-borne British and American supplies were landed in spite of strong air and g ro^ n ? Tn ?ffi o c\ates The Royal Air Force and United States Bth and 9th Air Force fighters in strength supported the operation. “The success of the operation, in which reinforcements and supplies were dropped, means staying power for the embattled air-borne forces says Reuter’s correspondent with American troop-carrying forces The slider procession was one or tne longest of the wdek. Observers saw skytrains of Dakotas and gliders stretching from the airfields of southern England to the Dutch coast There were only occasional bursts of flak as thskytrains skimmed over enemy terntory at 500 feet, but the sky filled with flak as the gliders were loosed from the towing aeroplanes. The gliders went down safely amid clouds of dust as their noses skidded along the ground." 1 FORCED LANDING BY GENERAL’S PLANE (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Sept 23 “The war will last only so long os the Gestapo makes the German nation annihilate itself,” said General Eisenhower, in a statement quoted by a radio correspondent. . .. . The correspondent disclosed that General Eisenhower’s aeroplane, in which he was returning from a recent front-line visit, made a forced landing onlv slightly damaged, but yen®” 1 Eisenhower wrenched a knee m heh)fv,p pilot drag it out. The supreme CSMS is now Quite recovered and is as “fit as a fiddle. SPEEDY ADVANCES OF TWO ARMIES RUGBY, Sept. 23. ( -Sripeedy advances of the French iSSF gffrr&iSK’SMs t?m ISemb?!?. 'S liberated 0 one-third of continental France. _r~*