AIR ATTACKS ON GERMANY

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24537, 10 April 1945, Page 3

AIR ATTACKS ON GERMANY

LITTLE INTERFERENCE BY LUFTWAFFE

(N.Z.- Press Association—Copyright) LONDON,'ApriI 8. After Saturday’s terrific thrashing, in which it lost 221 aircraft, the Luftwsne made no serious attempt to in* terfere with Sunday’s Allied air attacks.

More than 1200 Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the United States Bth Air Force attacked four railway yards, .three airfields, two ordnance depots, an oil stora'ge centre, and a repair factory for jet-propelled aeroplanes in an area extending through central Germsny from west of Berlin south to Nuremberg. The bombers were escorted, by about 750 Mustangs and Thunderbolts.

The targets included airfields for jetpropelled aircraft at Schafstadt, southwest of Dessau; Unterslaurtrsback, just south-west of Nuremberg; railway yards at Stendal, 70 miles west of Berlin; Plauten, 40 miles south-west of Chemnitz: Hof r 15 miles south-west of Plauen; Egr, 30" miles south-east of Plauen; Grafensohr, 20 miles southwest of Bayreuth; an oil depot at Darben, 55; piiles west of Berlin; and a jet-plane repair centre at Furth, Just north of Nuremberg. Ten bombers and one fighter are missing. Three enemy aircraft were shot down.

Liberators and Flying Fortresses of the 15th Air Force on Sunday operated for the third consecutive day against the Brenner Pass, striking at railway bridges, while Thunderbolts again gave close support in conjunction with the advancing sth Army troops in the Marsa area of the Italian west coast, says a correspondent in Rome. Additional Brenner targets were also bombed by Mitchells, and Lightnings dive-bombed bridges and rail targets in Austria. -