ENEMY TRANSPORT
RELENTLESS BOMBING London, Aug. 14. United States Headquarters in a final tabulation of damage to enemy transport by fighter bombers during Sunday’s daylong dive-bombing and ma-chine-gunning attacks was reported as follows: Over 3000 railroad cars 71 oilcars, seven tanks and a large number of horsedriven \ehicles destroyed; 231 locomotives disabled, 450 trucks and" other military vehicles shot up or bombed; over 40 barges damaged. Seventeen United States fighters were lost.
One pilot whose group covered the area just south of Paris said the whole area seemed as though a giant steamroller had gone over it. Reports from to-day’s Eighth Fighter Command missions completed by 1 p.m. showed that fighters had destroyed or damaged 29 locomotives, 301 railroad cars and 22 military vehicles. Fighters also reported the shooting down of three German planes.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 16 August 1944, Page 5
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