GERMAN AIRFIELD CAPTURED
LONDON, June 20. An airfield built by the Germans has been captured in the Normandy beachhead, reports a representative of the British United Press with the Ninth Air Force in France. It is the first airfield that has been taken by the Allies since the landing. The Germans tried every trick they knew to put it out of action in the short time at their disposal. They dug trenches across the main runway and built barricades. A Supreme Allied Headquarters _ communique says that the weather in the battle area limited air operations yesterday till midday. Today formations of fighter-bombers hit a bridge over the Loire, near Nantes, destroyed a railway bridge at Granville, and bombed rolling stock and motor transport at Trappes, south-west of Paris. Fighter-bombers also successfully attacked railway tracks in a number of places, both north and south of Chartres. Five out of 12 Focke-Wulf 190’s which attempted to interfere with this operation were destroyed in air combat for the loss of three of ours.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 227, 22 June 1944, Page 5
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170GERMAN AIRFIELD CAPTURED Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 227, 22 June 1944, Page 5
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