ALLIED AIR ASSAULT
RAILWAY YARDS BOMBED LONDON, August 31. • In the Allied air assault on railways of southern Italy, Marauders bombed marshalling yards north of Naples at Aversa. About 70 German . fighters came up, and at least 17 of them will not fight again. Other bombers attacked Civitavecchia, north-west oi Rome.
Wellingtons kept up the night attack. The daylight task for Fortresses was an important airfield 2b miles inland from Civitavecchio, and other aircraft bombed railways m the toe of Italy.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 54, 1 September 1943, Page 5
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81ALLIED AIR ASSAULT Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 54, 1 September 1943, Page 5
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