DAWN TO DUSK
WIDESPREAD RAIDS
HUGE FORCES FROM BRITAIN (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) Rec. 1.40 p.m. • LONDON, January 5. Huge forces of bombers and fighters swept out from Britain today, striking a four-pronged blow which reached across Europe from the west coast of France to Germany. Targets nearly 800 miles apart were bombed.
The cross-Channel offensive started at dawn and ended at dusk. Massed Allied medium bombers and fighters attacked the northern coast of France for the sixth successive day, while R.A.F. fighter-bombers attacked without loss military objectives in France. American bombers in great strength blasted Kiel, Germany's No. 1 U-boat construction centre, for the second successive day while the great shipyards were still belching with smoke from the previous attack. The targets bombed in western Germany today are still unnamed. In France bombers attacked the great airfield at Tours, from which German long-range planes take off to harry our Atlantic convoys, and. also Bordeaux, where the Germans use another airfield for shipping reconnaissance planes. s .. • ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 6
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