WELL PLASTERED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 82, 4 October 1944, Page 5

WELL PLASTERED

TARGETS IN GERMANY

RAIDS BY NIGHT AND DAY

(U.P.A, and 8.0. W.) Rec. 12.30 p.m. LONDON, October.3,

In one of the best nights of activity against railway targets, since D Day, Mosquitoes of the Second Tactical. Air Force last night, without loss, attacked 51 trains, most of which were in Germany near the 'Ruhr Valley and towards the Dutch border. Eight were attacked between Emmerich arid Gladbach, four north of Coblenz, and seven near Osnabruck, ahd others were spread over a large area of Germany and Holland, including the Arnhem area. Six locomotives are claimed to have beeri definitely destroyed. Fifteen fires were started among other trains. One fire, was visible for 30 miles. Five motor transport vehicles and nine barges were also attacked. After a bombing attack against a trawler off the Dutch coast three cannon attacks were made, and the trawler ran ashore while taking evasive action. A factory was also bombed and strafed.

Photographic interpretation of last evening's bombing by Mitchells and Bostons of seven German strong-points at Arnhem shows that the bombing was exceedingly accurate. Most of the reports record that the "aiming point was completely plastered." Military transport, factories, aerodromes, and other facilities in southern Germany were among targets attacked today by over 1000 Fortresses and Liberators, which were escorted by very strong forces of Mustangs. i gJrnifgs' ? nd Thunderbolts. Some Of tne targets were covered by clouds and were bombed by means of instruments. .

The objectives included the Nuremberg tank works, the Daimler-Benz £ ayr„nruc£ fact°ry at Gaggenau. about 40 miles south of Karlsruhe, and £.? P^ an ?™ station at GierftJS&V'? 8* of Nurnberg, Over 2000 aircraft took part. , i Ai; bombers last night attacked rSSJ? 6 d°^ ctlY es Germany Night intruder aircraft attacked airfields behind the enemyS £28" Fron? *hese operations no aircraft are missing. b9 v ™r iOS) sorties were flown by the R.A.F. Second Tactical Air Force yesterday, when outstanding close sudSSL"? $*&.*> the British Second wK* ♦ area. Mitchells ?hf a&o Vo c n ty ™^^X%I

ATTACKS ON CONVOYS' 0^ . aUGBY, October 3. +Jr *-~ Coast3l Command Wellingn^ht 3"™^- 1 S*7? Avengers last night made individual attacks on u^Z C^ on + r yi^ff the coasts of Ho£ land and the Frisian Islands. Heavy flak W as experienced in all the attacks. Cloud made it difficult to hvSf w sul ts ' but ***** the attack? lL Wellmgton a heat^ Pall of thick smoke was seen covering the length ?ng° Vo W ' °ne WellinWVrm¥s-