STRATEGICAL BOMBING

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 7

STRATEGICAL BOMBING

ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS

LONDON, September 1. c Up to 750 American heavy bombers from Italy -attacked railway yards and bridges in Yugoslavia and Hungary today. These targets are of the utmost strategical importance to the German forces stationed in the Balkans and those retreating before the advancing Red Army. ~ More than 1000 American airmen shot down over the Ploesti airfields in the past year have arrived in Italy from Bucharest. A "fleet of Fortresses brought them back. • Allied long-range fighters which made a wide sweep over Belgium and Holland struck powerful blows at road and railway communications today, says a correspondent at Supreme Headquarters. They shot up freight cars and half-track road vehicles between Mons and Roermond, in Holland, and disabled 69 locomotives between Liege and Roermond. They also damaged the canal 'locks at Eindhoven, in Holland, and attacked trains and marshalling yards between Mons and Antwerp. A SHAEF communique says: "Clouds over France hindered Allied activity early yesterday, but, .operating under improved conditions later in the day, fighters and fighter-bombers attacked enemy road and railway movements in northern France and Belgium. Hundreds of motor transport vehicles were destroyed. Locomotives and trucks were hit. Medium bombers and heavy bombers attacked coastal guns on the island of Cezembre. Light bombers hit fuel dumps in the forest of Ar.ques and at Nomeny, and also attacked a ■military building at Vincey. Coastal •aircraft-on Wednesday night attacked enemy shipping in the Channel waters stretching from Dieppe to Dunkirk, and hit a large merchantman and* a small ship." An Air Ministry communique says that over 600 Bomber Command Lan- • casters,-and Halifaxes yesterday afternoon attacked several long-range weapon supply depots in northern France. Mosquitoes last night attacked Dusseldorf and other objectives in western Germany. Seven bombers are missing. . Sixty enemy planes were, destroyed on the ground in an attack by strategic air force fighters yesterday on- the airfield at Reghiu, reports a Mediterranean air communique. It is now known that 97 enemy planes were destroyed on the ground in the operations on Wednesday. Tactical planes on Wednesday night attacked transport in northern Italy. Yesterday, they attacked -bridges, roads, and railway transport in north Italy and gun positions,, supply dumps, and transport in the Italian battle area. Other planes attacked targets in the Rhone Valley area, transport and bridges in Yugoslavia and coastal shipping in the Gulf of Genoa and the Adriatic. Bombers last night attacked railway yards at Ferrara and destroyed 12 enemy planes. These operations were made for the loss of 11 Mediterranean air force planes.