MASS ASSAULTS
MISSIONS ON MONDAY
RUGBY, December 4. Approximately 1200 United States Flying Fortresses and Liberators today attacked railway marshalling yards and industrial targets at Kassel, Mainz, Giessen, Oest, Bebra, and other places in western Germany. The heavy bombers were escorted by approximately 1000 fighters. • This afternoon Royal Air Force Lancasters, escorted by Spitfires and Mustangs, continued the offensive against the railways of the Ruhr district with a concentrated attack on Oberhausen. It was the fifth major attack on the Ruhr railways within a week, and, like the attack's on Essen Dusseldorf, Dortmund, and Hagen made since November 28, was designed to cause such confusion and dislocation in the great industrial centre that the railways would be overloaded and i communications would break down. In the attack soon after dark tonight by nearly 1000 aircraft of the R.A.F. j on Karlsruhe and Heilbronn, over 3500 tons of bombs were dropped.— 8.0. W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 136, 6 December 1944, Page 5
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