RAILWAY TARGETS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21580, 6 December 1944, Page 3

RAILWAY TARGETS

U.S. BOMBERS OUT BIG FIGHTER ESCORT LANCASTERS HIT HARD (9 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 4. Approximately 1200 United States Flying Fortresses and Liberators today attacked the railway marshalling yards and industrial targets at Kassel, Mainz, Giessen. Oest. Bebra and elsewhere in Western Germany. Heavy bombers were escorted by approximately 1000 United States Thunderbolts and Mustangs. This afternoon R.A.F. Lancasters,

escorted by Spitfires and Mustangs, I'ontinued the offensive against the railways of the Ruhr district with a concentrated attack on Oberhausen. It was the filth major attack on tiie Ruhr railways within a week, and like the attacks on Essen. Dusseldorf, Dortmund and Hagen, made since November 28, was designed to cause such confusion and dislocation in the great industrial centres that railways would be overloaded and communications break down. Oberhausen lias three very large marshalling-yards, and many heavy industries essential to the German war effort. Of 70 German fighters which strafed United States First Army positions yesterday, it is known that 4! were shot down, and up to 1C damaged by flak.