BLOCKING DANUBE
Minelaying By Aircraft From Italy < British Official Wireless.) (Received July 2. 7 p.m.) RUGBY. July 1. R.A.F. Liberators and Wellingtons from Italy have been laying more mines in the Danube. Since the beginning of this campaign, which has proved one of a series of moves in disrupting. Balkans communications, hundreds of miles of the river in Bulgaria, Rumania, and Hungary have been covered by the minelayers,' and the flow of German supplies to the armies facing the Russians has been seriously interfered with. A correspondent at advanced headquarters says that R.A.F. Wellingtons, Haltfaxes and Liberators on Thursday night complemented the recent assaults against the German oil supplies, by attacking the airfield at Feuersbrunn. 30 miles northwest of Vienna, which the Luftwaffe has been using for a fighter base as protection against daylight assaults. Swooping on the railway south-east of Bologna, light ami fighter-bombers destroyed a major part of a large rail shipment.' The score included 54 railway cars destroyed and 90 damaged, one locomotive destroyed, and three damaged.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 5
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170BLOCKING DANUBE Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 236, 3 July 1944, Page 5
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