AIRFIELDS RAIDED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 149, 25 June 1943, Page 5

AIRFIELDS RAIDED

SUCCESSES BY RUSSIANS LONDON, June 24. On Tuesday night, Soviet long-range bombers raided enemy aerodromes, according to an official statement which was broadcast by Moscow radio. A considerable number of German planes was destroyed or damaged on the ground. ; The railway junction 'at Pskov, just east of the Estonian border, was subjected to a severe and shattering bombardment. The whole area of the junction was ringed with flame. Stores of ammunition and fuel as well as many trains were set on fire. The fires were accompanied by big explosions. Two Soviet planes did not return. There is still patrol activity in several sectors, but generally there is a complete lull along the entire front. A Soviet communique states that no important changes took place yesterday. Soviet ships in the Black Sea sank two enemy motor landing barges. A supplementary communique says that on the central front, a Soviet recc -naissance detachment obtained valuable information about the enemy defences. Soviet reconnaissance groups were also active on other parts of the front. A partisan detachment operating in Kursk Province fought stubborn battles for several days against a German punitive expedition. They inflicted heavy losses and forced the Germans to retreat.