ALLIED AIR ATTACKS
(Press Assn-
only 11 in action on d day
—Rec. 9.30 p.m.)
LONDON, Jan. 3. German plans to fire something like 6000 flying boinbs a day at England were smashed by the Anglo-American air attack against the launehing sites. Early in December, 1943, the Germans were completing sites at the rate of two every three days, but the intensity of the Allied attack broke down this rate. Out of 97 sites, 86 had been neutralised by D-Day. These facts are disclosed in the first full report published to-day of the air attack before and supporting the Normandy landings. It was written hy the man who 'directed those operations, Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, who lost his life shortly aftervvards while flying out to his new'post as Air Commander-in-Chief in South-!E!ast Asia.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5293, 4 January 1947, Page 5
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