ATTACKED BY ALLIES
German Communications (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 18. <?»r aircraft had to fly through heavy cloud yesterday to boinb and strafe the German communication lines, gun positions, and motor vehicles in paly, states a correspondent at Allied headquarters. Sweeping up the. east coast railway toward Ancona. Spitfires and Warhawlte of thQ_.tactical air force attacked two locomotives and a number of rail-cars on a siding and renewed their attacks on a train which was damaged on October 16, setting fire to cars that escaped the previous strafing. Fighter-bombers were busy over the battle area, bombing motor vehicles, troop concentrations, and positions. Direct hits were scored on ‘a bridge south ol Carainanico, south-west of Chicti. Medium bombers attacked Alife. The weather made it impossible to see the results.. Bostons bombed a railway junction south of Rome on Saturday and hit the railway on the cast coast south ot Pescara.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 5
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150ATTACKED BY ALLIES Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 21, 20 October 1943, Page 5
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