AMPUTATION OF FOOT
'aim of allied bombers. DESTRUCTION AT FOGGIA. LONDON, August 20. Allied bombers are concentrating on the amputation of the foot of Italy from the remainder of the country in striking at the vital communications artery in Foggia. Pointing this out, 'Allied observers emphasise that Foggia is the last big road and railway junc- . tion in Southern Italy. Four roads and five railways converge on Foggia, which had to take the place of devastated Naples. Reconnaissance shows that the Naples marshalling yards and depots are dead after day and night poundings. The Italians apparently have not. tried to repair them to restart the flow of west coast traffic. Instead all “escape traffic” has been routed through Foggia, which occupies in East Coast communications the place of Naples in the West. The Germans from Sicily are using Foggia to transport troops and equipment north. Pilots reported flames all over Foggia. A tremendous explosion in the centre of the city threw up smoke and flames 3000 feet high. A struggle, in which about fifty Axis fighters were sent up, 28 of which were shot down by bombers and six by Lightnings, lasted an hour, during which time the sky was filled with battling planes.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1943, Page 3
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204AMPUTATION OF FOOT Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 August 1943, Page 3
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