HEAVY RAIDS ALONG WESTERN FRONT
Allied Air Forces Out LONDON, June 28. After a lull of two days the weather improved yesterday, and thousands of Allied planes have carried on the blitz against targets on the Continent in th» last 24 hours. More than 3000 sorties were flown yesterday, chiefly in the afternoon and evening, while the Bomber Command sent oue 1000 planes during last night’s operations. Following this, at least 1000 planes went out this morning. Fighter-bombers of the Eighth Air Force which went out late yesterday for one of the most intensive low-level bomuing and strafing attacks yet made flew about 500 sorties, and are reported to have destroyed or damaged five bridges and 66 locomotives, and also to have shot up 370 railway wagons. Six squadrons of the Second Tactical Air Force, Typhoons carrying bombs and rockets, last night demolished a German army corps headquarters located in the Chateau St. Saveur Endelin. in the southern part of the Cherbourg Peninsula. It is officially announced that a strong force of Eighth Air Force Fortresses and Liberators in clear weather this morning bombed German aerodromes at Couvron, Athies, and Jouvincourt, all of which are in the vicinity of Laon. The German railroad yards at Saarbrueken were also attacked through cloud, . and other military targets in the vicinity ot Paris and Laon were hit. It is believed that between 500 and 750 heavy bombers, with 250 to 500 fighters, participated. Construction Sites Bombed.
Medium forces of . Mustangs, Thunderbolts, and Ligntuings formed the escort for the Eighth Air force heavies which swept France this moruing. They also strafed and dive-bombed airfields and transport lines, shooting up 14 locomotives, 73 railway ears, four trucks, and a number of »thcr vehicles. In the course of the moruing fighters shot down two enemy aircraft. Two of our bombers and two fighters are missing. Lancasters, Halifaxcs, and Mosquitoes flew over northern France in great strength last night to attack flying bombsites and other constructional works. At least six enemy fighters were shot down. Mines were also laid in enemy waters Four bombers are missing. Halifaxes without loss made heavy attacks on military installations in the Pas de Calais area this morning. Beaufighters attacked a naval convoy of about seven small vessels off the Hook of Holland today. Clouds of smoke rose from two of the vessels. German long-range guns in the Straits of Dover this evening put up a heavy cannonade. The gunfire went on for an hour before the nil-clear sounded, and a second cannonade followed later in the evening.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 234, 30 June 1944, Page 5
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426HEAVY RAIDS ALONG WESTERN FRONT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 234, 30 June 1944, Page 5
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