TEMPELHOF AERODROME TAKEN
(Rec. 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, April 27. The Tempelhof aerodrome has been captured. This was announced in tonight's Soviet communique, which says that troops of the Third White Russian Command to-day advanced seven miles along the Frischenerung. They took 3,000 prisoners yesterday. Troops of the First White Russian Command are engaged in street fighting in Berlin. They occupied the district of Neukolln and the Tempelhof aerodrome.
Eight thousand five hundred prisoners were taken yesterday, and 26 planes and 200 tanks were captured.
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Evening Star, Issue 25470, 28 April 1945, Page 7
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