ALLIED AIR ATTACKS

Grey River Argus, 1 December 1943, Page 5

ALLIED AIR ATTACKS

GERMANS LOSE 45 TO 35. CHANNEL INVASION SPECULATION. RUGBY, November 29. Fortresses attacked Bremen in daylight to-day. The Fortresses and the escort of Thunderbolts and Lightnings shot down 35 enemy planes. In addition to an American and I R.A.F. attack on airfields in Belgium, R.A.F. Mosquitoes attacked a railway centre in North-west Germany. i Ten enemy fighters were destroyed over Belgium, making the total for the day shot down 45. The day’s operations cost us 13 heavy bombers and 18 fighters. Mosquitoes raided targets in western Germany last night. Other aircraft laid mines in enemy waters. All the aircraft returned. Large forces of heavy bombers last night, carried out large-scale exercises covering a wide area of Britain. Planes crossed the south coast at regular intervals from early evening until midnight. ' Soon after midnight the roar of yet another great force was heard continuously for an hour. Listeners said they had not heard so vast an armada lor many months. i Following the catastrophic raids on Berlin, these exercises have quickened speculation on the prospects of an early cross-Channel invasion. (Rec. 9.20) LONDON, Nov. 30. The Air . Ministry and United States Air Force, in a joint communique, stated: Flying Fortresses, escorted by Thunderbolts and Lightnings, attacked Bremen for a second time in four day’s. Bombers destroyed twenty enemy planes. (Fighters destroyed fifteen. Marauders escorted by Spitfires an airfield at Chievres, and destroyed ten enemy fighters. Typhoon bombers bombed an airfield at Moorseele, in Belgium. An attack on shipping off Brest was made by Mosquitoes. A low level attack was made on a railway centre in North-west Germany. Thirteen of our heavy bombers and eighteen of our fighters are missing. MONDAY NIGHT RAIDS WEST GERMANY. FRANCE AND HOLLAND. (Rec. 11.0) LONDON, Nov. 30. The British Air Ministry in a communique state's: Mosquitoes on Monday night attacked tar £ et, s J n Western Germany. Intruders b°T™' ed enemv airfield in France and Holland. Nine of our planes are missing. .