FALL OF REGENSBURG
Rec. 1 pjn. RUGBY, April 27. Regensburg, the northern stronghold of Hitler's southern redoubt, 45 miles west of the Czechoslovakian frontier, fell today to 3rd Army troops, says a correspondent. Regensburg (or Ratisbon) guards the road to Munich, the cradle- of the Nazi Party, 62 miles to the south-west. Its chief contribution to the German war machine was the manufacture of aircraft at a Messerschmitt works, and latterly jetpropelled at the Obertraubling factory, it also has an oil refinery.
Regensburg is a vital railway junction on the line running north, and south, and east and west. It also has an inland harbour and a large airfield. It has been heavily bombed by Allied aircraft both* from the west and from Italy.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 99, 28 April 1945, Page 7
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