SURPRISE BLOW
FOUR BRIDGES WRECKED ON ENEMY MAIN LINE OF COMMUNICATION. IN EAST COAST REGION. (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 20. A surprise attack made by Liberator bombers just after dawn on Tuesday paralysed the Italian coast railway by wrecking bridges at four points between Ancona and Pescara, states a correspondent at Allied headquarters in North Africa. The Liberators encountered no enemy fighters and only light anti-aircraft fire. All returned safely. The attack has made it practicl ally impossible for the Germans to supply their troops facing the Eighth Army by this railway, which is the only one that runs along the coast. The bridges destroyed are located near Porto Civita Nova, south of Elpido, north of Pendaso, and north of Cupramartima.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 October 1943, Page 4
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