UNENDING PROCESSION

Evening Star, Issue 25325, 6 November 1944, Page 5

UNENDING PROCESSION

HUGE AIR FLEETS OUT VITAL TARGETS BLASTED (Rec. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Nov. 5. The railway marshalling yards at Frankfurt, Karlsruhe, and Ludwigshalfen wore attacked on Sunday by more than 1,200 United States bombers. The Liberators and Fortresses / were escorted by approximately 650 Mustanks and Thunderbolts.

On Sunday afternoon R.A.F. Lancasters, escorted by Spitfires and Mustangs, made another attack on Solingen. When Lancasters and Halifaxes last night made the heaviest attack yet launched on Bochum well over 3,000 tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped. Bochum is one of tho main centres of the steel industry in the Ruhr, and is an important railway town. The weather was clear, and when smoke from the great circles of fires threatened to hide the target the wind quickly blew it away. The crews saw many explosions, from which black smoke rose to a height of several thousand feet. All the defences in the Ruhr came into action, and large numbers of night fighters were seen. Escorted Fortresses and Liberators bombed targets at Vienna through cloud to-day, states a correspondent in Rome. Medium bombers (for the second consecutive day hammered the Brenner Pass line and railroads to Yugoslavia. Locomotive-busting fighter-bombers added 25 locomotives to their bag in operations in Northern Italy and Northern Yugoslavia. The Junkers 87 6ent crashing in flames beneathHhe nose of Nazi searchlights and flak crews on an airfield in North-western Germany at midnight on Saturday by a Mosquito of R.A.F. Fighter Command was one_ of three enemy aircraft destroyed in one_ of Fighter Command's busiest nights since the beginning of October. The Nazi plane was just about to land, and the Nazi A.A. defences opened up too late to save the Junkers. A New Zealand Mosquito crew bagged one Messerschmitt 110 over Antwerp and aHeinkel 111 flying bomb-launching aircraft was shot down over the North Sea by a Beaufighter.