BIG DAYLIGHT RAIDS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 200, 22 May 1944, Page 5

BIG DAYLIGHT RAIDS

More Destruction In Nazi Capital (Received May 21. 7.40 p.m.)

LONDON, May 20. Between 500 and 750 Liberators and Fortresses, accompanied by approximately an equal number of fighters, took part in a raid on Berlin and Brunswick yesterday. 'The German radio stations, whose programmes were broken up and disorganized for several hours, reported violent air battles over Osnabruek. It is officially announced that lj-i> enemy aircraft were shot down, t>3 by bombers mid 72 by fighters. Iwenty-six bombers and 19 fighters are missing. Photographs taken during the attach on Berlin indicate damage to industrial areas, railways in the capital, and to the Wilhelmitor Messerschmitt components factory, and the Wilkerwerke A.G. pipe and boiler factory near Brunswick, states a communique. In Berlin groups ot bombs exploded on railway sidings, and in the Horst Wessel area and on the railway repair shot). At the Wilkerwerke plant, Brunswick, hits were made on machine shops, a power station and storage yards. At the Messerschmitt component, factory at Brunswiek-Wilhelmitor, two large workshops were hit mid bursts were noted on and around the passenger station mid the railway storage sidings. Incendiary bursts were seen in the north oud north-east portion of the city. The Royal Palace in Berlin was bit during the American daylight raid yesterday, according to the deputy German Press chief, Herr Suetidermann. speaking on the German overseas radio. He said the Gobelin Hall and the Schluter court in the palace suffered heavily. The German news agency reported that a building housing documents relating to the lust Olympic Games held in Berlin in 1930 was set on fire in a recent raid. The documents, however, wore saved, and were being kept at the International Olympic Institute as a basis for the next. Olympic Games.