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HITLERS BALKAN CENTRES ALLIED BASES IN ITALY (!R.'o. noon.) LONDON, January 10. Reuter's aviation .correspondent says the announcement that Allied heavy bombers are now operating from bases on tho Jtaliau mainland means that Fortresses and Liberators are now able from the Mediterranean theatre to bomb Hitler's Balkan centres in addition to southern Germany. The range of these bombers makes possible a round trip of about I.(XX) miles, bringing the following targets iu their reach:—The whole of Greece, including Athens, Sofia, Bucharest, Budapest, the whole of Yugoslavia, where they will be able to .support Marshal Tito's ground forces. Vienna, southern Germany, including Stuttgart and Nuremberg, also the south of France ns far as Marseilles. BULGARIAN CAPITAL ATTACKED. Jt is officially announced Algiers that a heavy force of Flying Fortresses bombed Sofia at • noon to-day. This is the fifth time Sofia has been raided in two months.
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Evening Star, Issue 25070, 11 January 1944, Page 3
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