RANDOM TARGETS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 5

RANDOM TARGETS

FLYING RESTRICTED Recd. 6.15 pm. R ugb y, j an . 7. 1 Enough bad. flying weather restricted air operations along the whole ot the Italian front yesterday, fighti ers and fighter-bombers gave active i support to the Fifth Army by carrying out dive-bombing and strafing attacks on enemy troops and gun positions, writes a correspondent at Allied I headquarters. Invaders Warhawks, and Spitfires flew through thick cloud, flying low over hills and mountains, to make attacks in the Cervaro and Aquino areas. Invaders also flew further

afield and carried out low-flying attacks against any targets they could find. They shot up a train, leaving the locomotive and ten coaches burning. east of Rome, and also attacked the town and railway at Fondi, southeast of Teracia, causing a number of explosions and starting fires, and also destroyed a Heinkel 111 and shot up a motor convoy. Twenty enemy aircraft were intercepted by Americanflown Spitfires. Two of th?m were shot down without, loss. All the heavy and medium bombers were grounded. —8.0.W.