WAR NEWS
FROM BERLIN TO BREMEN R.A.F.S DAMAGING PATROLS ENEMY MOVEMENT CRIPPLED (Rec. noon.) RUGBY, April 26. With Berlin encircled by the Red army, R.A.F. Mosquitoes are patrolling west of the city from dusk to dawn to intercept any attempted escape by air. Last night an F.W. 190 and an F.W. 189 were shot down, bringing the total of enemy aircraft destroved since the Russians entered Berlin" to 21.
Mosquito bombers continued their attacks on targets north of Bremen and Hamburg, and up to the Danish border. Sixteen trains were successfully attacked, including one drawing 15 oil tankers, which was left blazing from end to end. Other Mosquitoes caused large fires and explosions in two targets northeast of Bremen, and even after the Mosquitoes had taken off to start their night operations, medium bombers were still over Bremen in a dusk attack after all-day bombing of the port. While the R.A.F.'s Second Tactical Air Force's main effort yesterday was linked with the Second British Army's drive on Bremen, fighters and fighterbombers had a big day against enemy movement by road, ran,'sea, and air. Incomplete scores show that over 460 motor transport were destroyed or damaged, over 40 cute made, on the railways, mainly radiating from Hamburg, and over 70 locomotives and 420 trucks accounted for. In the air 10 aircraft were destroyed, and three probably, and six damaged, with six more destroyed and 20 damaged on the ground. We lost six aircraft. ° Shipping near Emden and in the Ems Estuary was attacked by Typhoons, a ' 4.000-ton vessel being probably sunk, and another large vessel left badly damaged, a bomb through her stern having caused an explosion. A number of merchant ships were hit in the Ems Estuary, and quayside buildings and warehouses were severely damaged. The Luftwaffe came up in larger numbers than usual in an attempt to protect German movements in the Berlin area and to the north-west of the city. Spitfires were outnumbered live to one. Eieht German aircraft wero destroyed without loss.
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Evening Star, Issue 25469, 27 April 1945, Page 6
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