RAIL TARGETS
OVER 1000 SORTIES ALLIED HAMMERING BRUNSWICK REACHED (11 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 7. Tempests operated on the outskirts of Brunswick, only 100 miles west of Berlin, yesterday when, Including Typhoon and Spitfire fighters, well over 1000 sorties were flown. The revised figures show that 51 rail cuts were made, including 17 on the V-2 communications system in north Holland. Forty-nine locomotives and 94 railway trucks were destroyed or damaged. The weather deteriorated in the afternoon, but the Tempests, Typhoons and Spitfires took off all day to hammer German communications whenever they saw them through the narrow gaps in the cloud. Pilots reported that .the Germans have strengthened their flak protection along the vital railways. Several attacks yesterday were made in the face of concentrated fire from guns mounted on wagons in trains.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21632, 8 February 1945, Page 6
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133RAIL TARGETS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21632, 8 February 1945, Page 6
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