SUPPORT FOR TROOPS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 49, 27 February 1945, Page 5

SUPPORT FOR TROOPS

WIDE CHOICE OF TARGETS

Rec. 11 a.m. RUGBY, Feb. 26. The Anglo-American communique states: "Medium and light bombers attacked the communications centres of Udem and Xanten. At Qeede a formation of enemy tanks was successfully attacked and dispersed by rocket-firing fighters which also hit enemy troops and 48 buildings in the Udem area. Other medium and light bombers struck at targets at Wegburg, north of Erkelenz and just east' of Duren. Enemy railway communications were i.gain heavily attacked. Railway lines and rolling stock in Holland eastward to north and central Germany and as far north as Pforzheim, in the upper Rhineland, were hit by fighters > and fighter-bombers. Communications centres in the region of Cologne, railway bridges at Ahrweiler, south of Bonn, and east of the Rhine at Colbe and Nederscheid, were attacked by medium and light bombers. Escorted heavy bombers in very great strength struck at railway yards at Munich, Aschaffenburg, and Ulm. Other targets for. heavy bombers were tank plants at Friedrichshafen and Acheffenburg, air bases west of Nuremburg, and an oil storage depot at Neuburg.

"The synthetic oil plant at Kamen, near Dortmund, was attacked by other escorted heavy bombers for the second consecutive day. A large ammunition dump at Sieglbach, southeast of Heidelberg, and barracks and supply dumps at Donaueschingen were struck at by medium bombers. "During the day 39 enemy aircraft were shot down and 20 others were destroyed on the ground. From incomplete reports, three medium and light bombers and 28 fighters are missing.

"Last night bombers attacked the important communications centre of Erfurt and bombed targets in Berlin. Other light bombers struck at railway targets in Holland and north of the Ruhr and at objectives west of the Rhine from Emmerich to Cologne."— 8.0. W.