NAZI DEFEAT
IN ATTEMPT TO CROSS RIVER RED AIR FORCE INFLICTS HEAVY LOSSES. THREE THOUSAND GERMANS KILLED OR WOUNDED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY, August 31. The air defeat of German attempts to cross “River D” is described in a Soviet supplementary communique, which states: “Our reconnaissance planes spotted large German units preparing to cross River D. A squadron of the Red Air Force attacked a concentration of enemy troops. Flares and incendiary bombs were dropped and the pilots could see a pontoon bridge which had been prepared. The pontoon was destroyed by oui* dive bombers. The Germans suffered heavy losses and had to postpone the transport of their troops over the river. Next morning an air squadron attacked the German concentration again.
Three anti-aircraft batteries, 25 tanks and twenty guns were destroyed and 3,000 German soldiers were killed or wounded.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 September 1941, Page 6
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