IMPORTANT TOWN
DESTROYED BY BOMBS
Rec, 12.45 p.m. RUGBY. Feb. 27. Reconnaissance shows that the whole built-up area of the industrial and communications centre of Pforzheim has been destroyed. Pforzheim, which is 50 miles northeast of Strasbourg, was an important junction on the main line running east to west towards the battlefront. Since the war its factories have all been converted to the production of precision instruments, fuses, small arms components, and similar war materials.
The town was attacked by the R.A.F. on the night of February 23 and many fires were still burning when reconnaissance was made a day later. The built-up area of the town covers 369 acres and it is seen that this is entirely in ruins. Hardly a single building remains.
'The railway targets are particularly badly damaged. The goods yards are completely burned out, a great deal of rolling stock has been destroyed or damaged, and the main road bridge over the railway has been hi. and appears to be severed.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 50, 28 February 1945, Page 5
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166IMPORTANT TOWN Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 50, 28 February 1945, Page 5
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