ESCAPE ROUTES
VIGILANT AIR PATROLS .MOVING TRAFFIC POUNCED UPON (Rec. 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, April 26. Considerable enemy transport is flooding into Denmark across the Reich frontier, cables a correspondent at Field-Marshal ©Montgomery's headquarters. Pilots of Continental-based Second Tactical Air Force Tempests reported on Thursday afternoon " considerable movement " on the roads north-west of the Reich border town of Flensberg across the frontier into Denmark. By late afternoon the Tempests had destroyed or damaged 47 enemy vehicles. Second Tactical Air Force Spitfire pilots 'roamed the area west- of Berlin on Thursday, virtually hunting the enemy to or from the battle of Beriin. After sweeping hundreds of square miles from west and north of the capital almost to the Baltic const they found no targets. The report of one of the pilots sums up the situation: "We combed the whole area up to the Russian line and there was uo military movement to be seen. We visited all the airfields, hut could find no aircraft. We searched lakes, and there were no seaplanes We flew up and down every possible road, and there was not even a German jeep to be seen."
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Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 5
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189ESCAPE ROUTES Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 5
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