ALLIED RAIDS

Grey River Argus, 3 December 1943, Page 4

ALLIED RAIDS

GERMANY & FRANCE I ■. ~ i Wednesday’s Varied Operations 41 AIRCRAFT LOST [Aust. & N.Z. Press Assn.l ■> (Rec. 9.30) LONDON, Dec. 2. Large formations of Flying Fortresses and Liberators, which were escorted by Thunderbolts and Lightnings in daylight on Wednesday attacked Solingen, in Wes’. Germany. Twenty-three of the German interi cepting planes were destroyed. SpitI fires and Typhoons carried out supporting operations. The Spitfires dei stroyed two German fighters. ; American Marauders which were supported and covered by R.A.F., Dominion and Allied Spitfires, bombed German airfields on Wednesday in Lille and Cambrai in France Three enemy fighters were shot, down. Mitchell bombers .attacked German aircraft works at Albert, - in France, on Wednesday, while Mosquitoes bombed industrial targets in Holland, and attacked shipping off the Brest Peninsula, France. Two enemy fighters were destroyed. Pilots on offshore patrols on Wednesday shot down three junkers 88’s south of Lands End. From all of these operations 26 of the heavy bombers and one light bombers, and also fourteen fighters, are missing. One fightei' pilot is safe.

During Wednesday night Mosquitoes made another swift attack on Germany, .and there was also a force out mining German shipping lanes. .

R.A.F. Bombing Policy BERLIN FIRST CHOICE RUGBY. Dec. 1. Sir Archibald Sinclair announced in the Commons that the Pu.A.F. Bomber Command in November dropped about thirteen thousand tons of bombs in Germany compared with 120 tons dropped in Britain bv the enemy. These bombings, were likely vastly to reduce Allied military casualties when invading the Continent. * He was asked whether the policy of limiting bombing objectives to targets of military importance had been changed to bombing towns and wide areas in Avhich military targets were situated. He replied in the negative. He said Berlin was the centre of twelve strategic railways. was the second largest, inland port in Europe, and was connected with the German canal system. In the city were A.E.G. Rheinmetal. Siemens. Fockewulf. Heinkel and Dornier factories. If he were alloAved to choose only one target in Germany, that target would be Berlin.

“SUPER-MOSQUITOES” ( • LONDON, Nov. 25. A new version of the Mosquito plane has been announced in Britain. It is known as the super Mosquito fighter-bomber. The first version of the Mosquito was a night bomber capable of carrying 10001 b of bombs at the speed of the fastest fighters. Later, this aircraft became a fighter with four cannons and four machine-guns. The “Super Mosquito” combines all these qualities. It can carry the same bomb load as the first model, and also mounts the armament of the fighter type. Arrangements have been made for the production of this super' Mosquito in Canada. The fighter-bomber version of the famous Mosquito plane is now in action, says “The Times” aviation correspondent. The new type has full fighter armament, four 20mm. cannon, four .303 machine-guns and a bomb load of lOOOlbs. The Mosquito is now the most multi-purpose plane in the R.A.F. and is still the fastest plane in the world