HEAVIEST DAYLIGHT BLOW
2.000 PLANES OVER REICH CAPITAL GERMANS ADMIT CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE (llec. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 7. The targets for Fortresses and Liberators in Germany tq-day included Munster and Osnabfuck, as well as Berlin, states a United States communique. Very strong forces of Thunderbolts. Lightnings, Mustangs, Canadian Spitfires, and 11.A.F. and Allied Mustangs escorted them. 1 There was solid overcast cloud over the targets. Bombing was done by instruments, and the results were unobserved. Eight bombers and five fighters are missing. Two enemy planes were destroyed. The Press Association estimates that up to 2,000 planes partici-
daylight blows against Berlin. The German News Agency says the bombers took advantage of .the bad waather and dropped many bombs in the city area without ground visibility. Civilian casualties and damage were caused.
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Evening Star, Issue 25169, 8 May 1944, Page 3
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