INTENSEST WEEK YET.
AIR RAIDS ON EUROPE LONDON, January 8. Allied planes yesterday concluded the most intense week of air assaults against Europe of the war, carrying out a total of 8000 sorties. According to the Stockholm "Aftonbladet," Stettin harbour is almost unusable after the R.A.F. raid on January 5. The Swedish Foreign Office announced that the Swedish Consulate in Stettin was destroyed in the raid. On Friday night Mosquitos of the Bomber Command without loss attacked objectives in western Germany, states the Air Ministry. R.A.F., Dominion, and Allied fighters on Saturday afternoon carried out offensive patrols over northern France. One enemy aircraft was destroyed. A German communique says that British and American bombers on Friday attacked Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, causing considerable damage.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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123INTENSEST WEEK YET. Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 3
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