MAINLY RAILWAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 134, 4 December 1944, Page 5

MAINLY RAILWAYS

EARLIER RAIDS

RUGBY, December 2. The Air Ministry states that Mosquitoes of the Bomber Command attacked the railway centre and advanced supply base of Karlsruhe last evening. Other objectives in western Germany were also bombed and night intruders attacked enemy airfields. All the planes returned.

Some 250 heavy bombers attacked the railway . centres of Bingen and Coblenz, in south-west Germany, today, bombing through dense clouds. More than 500 Tunderbolts and Mustangs escorted them. Thirty to 50 enemy aircraft launched an attack on some Liberator groups in the Bingen area, but the German formations were soon dispersed. Twenty-eight enemy aircraft were reported shot down by the fighters. Eleven bombers are1 missing.

This afternoon R.A.F. Lancasters escorted by Mustangs and Spitfires attacked the Huiisa benzol plant on the outskirts of Dortmund—the fourth benzol plant to be attacked this week by the Bomber Command. The attack was made by instruments through thick cloud, and flares were also used. One fighter is missing. • . Spitfires attacked with cannon and machine-gun fire today a V 2 storage site in Holland.

Plunging out of cloud at 2000 feet, to chimney-top height, rocket-firing Typhoons demolished with 100 rockets a large factory building in a suburb of Venloo in which 150 machine-gunners had barricaded themselves. "It was a rocket pilot's dream," 'said the leader of the attack.—B.O.W.