CRUSHING AIR SUPPORT
1,200 HEAVIES AHEAD OF ARMIES
(Rec. 1 p.m.) RUGBY, April 16. Nearly 1,200 Liberators and Fortresses of the Fifteenth Allied Air Force were out to-day sgain bombing targets in advance of the Fifth Army's offensive, writes a correspondent at Rome. The bomb loadings were again at maximum capacity, enabling the greatest weight of smaller-sized high explosives to be carried in each plane. Bad weather curtailed the Tactical Air Force's activities, but Mitchells bombed battle area targets on the Eighth Army front by instruments through a solid cloud of overcast sky. For a time the medium bombers were also bombing by instruments. The main targets were south-east of Porto Maggiore, just beyond the Argenta Gap. Fighter - bombers successfully attacked enemy gun positions west of Pianoro, about seven miles south of Bologna, and also a point about 13 miles • south-west of Bologna. The Desert Air Force destroyed 67 occupied buildings at the front and damaged a further 80.
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Evening Star, Issue 25461, 17 April 1945, Page 5
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159CRUSHING AIR SUPPORT Evening Star, Issue 25461, 17 April 1945, Page 5
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