COMMAND OF SKY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 56, 4 September 1944, Page 2

COMMAND OF SKY

REVEALED BY RAIDS

NAZI FIGHTERS MISSING

j (U.P.A; and 8.0. W.) R^™3 30 Pni- LONDON, Sept. 3. erf^nf*?- and British heaW »««nbattarkPd V" g *from B«tain today, S atargets near Ludwigshafen. The StaS"Si?let no,. flShter opposition! diSh £ esc«rtmg Mustangs shot co°SaV SeVen GerMan > flfeffflSi^reSS^ °ne .m^'fi'^* Lancasters an<* Halifaxes S!? in g. er ?£ ver this afternoon went 250 «nH fe ngJh> + Ai-force of between 200 and 500 Fortresses,. with escorting SftfrfrP' German guS Rnmte 3ndSSong-Points at Brest. Bombing was visual and the results Were from good to excellent. Two bombers are missing. ASSAULT WITHOUT LOSS. About 150 Marauders and Havocs this morning attacked Brest without S s°Ppi^g over 20° tons of bombs and_ attempting to force the surrender oi fee German garrison. Medium Dombers struck in nine waves The citizens of Antwerp'this afternoon saw American Mustangs without loss shoot down seven Focke-WuLf 190 s in a dogfight over the city. The Mustangs were returning from escorting the Fortreses to Ludwigshafen and' wirelessed when they encountered aswarm of Focke-Wulfs. Individual battles .swirled down as low as 150 feet above the chimney pots. THRASHING IN ITALY. The enemy opposing the Allied advance in. Italy yesterday again received a severe air pounding, says a Rome correspondent. Marauders and Baltimores started fires in positions on the Gothic Line, destroyed 43 motor vehicles, and destroyed or damaged six locomotives. Medium bombers reported hits on three railway bridges in the central Po Valley, and fighterbombers destroyed three pontoon bridges over the Po. . ! Thunderbolts attacked railway and road communications in southern France and heavy bombers attacked railway yards and railway bridges in Yugoslavia. Lightnings and Mustangs operating in Yugoslavia destroyed 82 locomotives, 154 vehicles, 113 trucks; and 30 petrol vehicles. I R.A.F. bombers last night bombed Ferrara. Allied dive-bombers from Corsica today attacked bridges and rail transj port near the Italo-French border.