FLYING FORTRESSES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 42, 18 August 1942, Page 3

FLYING FORTRESSES

Daylight Raid on Austrian

(Rec. 1.45 p.m.) LONDON! Aug. 17. Reports received at Istanbul from Vienna state that United States Flying Fortresses made a recent high-level daylight attack on the important industrial centre of Wiener Neustadt, near Vienna. During the following two days Vienna had five alerts, but no bombs were dropped. • The Germans recently transfer- , red many, war factories from the Ruhr to Wiener Neustadt.

Wiener Neustadt has a strategic situation in lower Austria and has long been an important manufacturing town, building-, among other things, railway rolling stock anfl machinery. '

enemy already; had had 3,500,000 killed, but he was'stiir trying ■ to: break through in the south, The fighting was different from last.year, because their enormous losses prevented the Germans attacking, along the whole...fjjpnt.! The enemy: had thrown all their.jforees and reserves, into the. battle in the south, and so had achieved a' numerical superiority, but the,. resistance of the' Red Army -was increasing, and the. Germans, and their lackeys were beingbled white. They .had- advanced, but did .not get what they^ wanted and; would never get-it.-—8.0.W. : . .