SHUTTLE BOMBING
GERMAN FIGHTERS BEATEN Recd. 7.30 p.m. London. Aug. 13. From August. 5 to August 12, in which period Fortresses, escorted by Mustangs, completed a Britain-Russia-Italy-Britain shuttle bombing operation, therein twice spanning central Europe, tee Luftwaffe made only one major attack. Fifty Focke Wulfe’s 190’s assailed the armada during the first leg of the shuttle flight. The enemy fighters rose up over Germany, but Mustangs beat them off and the Fortresses sailed on to Russia. Not a single Fortress or Mustang was lost during the thousands of miles of flight, mostly over hostile territory. R' cd. 7.30 p m. Rugby, Aug. 12. Fortresses, starting from bases in Italy, to-day attacked a German aerodrome five miles south-west of Toulouse and proceeded to bases in England. These bombers were the same Bth U.S. Army Air Force aircraft [which made a shuttle run from England to Russia on August 6.—8.0.W,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 193, 14 August 1944, Page 5
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