VITAL TARGET
SMASHED BY FLYING FORTRESSES DAYLIGHT ATTACK MADE ON GERMAN FACTORY Reed. 7.15 p.m. Rugby, Oct. 14. Flying Fortresses based bl Britain to-day attacked a vital target, the ball and roller-bearing factory at Schweinfurt, in Bavaria, 55 miles east of Frankfurt, which was previously attacked in August. In to-day’s raid, which was pressed home against the fiercest opposition, the Fortresses destroyed 91 enemy fighters, and escorting Thunderbolts destroyed another 13, making a total of 194. Sixty American bombers and two fighters are missing. When Schweinfurt was attacked two months ago the opposition was also very fierce and 39 bombers were Jost. On that occasion Regensburg was also attacked the same day, and the total loss of 59 American bombers was then the highest loss from one day’s attacks on Germany.—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 245, 16 October 1943, Page 5
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