WAR ON ROCKET SITES
HITS MADE ON FEEDERS (Rec. 12.25 p.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 2. Two communications feeding the Dutch coast_ rocket sites were hit today by Continental-based planes, writes a on the western front. Weather conditions limited the scope of the attacks, but hits were made on the railway lines linking Dordrecht, Amersfort, and Gorinchen. A Norwegian Spitfire squadron flew an armed reconnaissance mission in North-west Holland, where they bombed and cannonaded a train, stopping it and damaging locomotives and coaches. The Spitfires also attacke'd houses believed to be enemy troops' barracks north-west of Hertogenbosch. From Continental airfields Mitchells and Bostons, including French aircraft, attacked an enemy fuel storage dump on the south bank of the Rhine below Emmerich, believed to be the last remaining oil feed centre of any size supplying the Nazi troops on the western front. Strikes on the target were reported. One Mitchell was lost.
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Evening Star, Issue 25400, 3 February 1945, Page 7
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149WAR ON ROCKET SITES Evening Star, Issue 25400, 3 February 1945, Page 7
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