AIR RAIDS ON EUROPE
WIDELY SPREAD TARGETS LONDON, Jan. 17 Royal Air Force fighter-bombers flew out from Britain m daylight yesterday to make a low-level attack ' on enemy war plants in Brittany. The planes dropped their bombs from 150 feet and returned without loss. • Heavy bombers of the North-west African Air Force with fighter escort yesterday attacked the Messerschmitt plant at Klagenfurt in Southern Austria. Hits were scored on the machine shops and on the factory railway sidings. Flying Fortresses and Lightnings which bombed the Messerschmitt factory at Klagenfurt were met near lhe target by 10 enemy fighters equipped with rocket-guns, says a correspondent at Allied Headquarters in North Africa. Three enemy planes were destroyed. Liberators attacking Osoppo. near Trieste were challenged by 40 enemy planes, nine of which were destroyed. Marauders nearer home destroyed five of 20 enemy planes encountered, and at least one enemy plane was brought down in the battle area.
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Waikato Times, Volume 194, Issue 22248, 18 January 1944, Page 3
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