HAVOC IN ONE MONTH
Work Of Ninth Air Force (Received June 2, 7 p.m.) LONDON, June 1. In widespread operations directed mainly against enemy railway, road and canal traffic in northern France and Belgium during May, aircraft of the Ninth Air Force carried out more than 30,000 individual sorties and dropped more than 20,000 tons of bombs on more than 100 targets. In the last 10 days Marauders and Havocs dropped more than 4000 tons of bombs on bridges across the Seine, ■which is a greater total than for the entire month last winter. Fighter-bombers stepped up the offensive at an unprecedented rate and attacked railway yards, lines, bridges, locomotives, rolling stock, railway sidings and embankments, fuel dumps, ammunition dumps, factories, radio installations, gun emplacements, and flak posts.' In escort missions and offensive sweeps over northern France, the Low Countries and Germany, Thunderbolts, Lightnings and Mustangs destroyed more than 90 enemy aircraft in the air and more than 140 on the ground, for the loss of 63.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 211, 3 June 1944, Page 7
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