CANADIAN MOSQUITOES
SUCCESSES OVER FRANCE RUGBY, Apl. 16.
R.C.A.F. Mosquitoes on offensive patrol over Eastern France this afternoon without loss destroyed three enemy aircraft over Luzouil and damaged several others on the ‘ ground. Luzouil is 80 miles due south-west of Strassburg and 40 miles north-west of the Swiss frontier.
Photographs show that the big Focke-Wulf assembly plant at Marienburg, in East Prussia, which since the bombing in October last had been rebuilt and was again in- production, is once more largely devastated. Marienburg is only one of the production centres and air bases throughout Germany, Poland, Belgium, and France which United Nations bombers have raided in the past week, during which raids they destroyed 114 planes in the air.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25513, 18 April 1944, Page 3
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