TWENTY MILES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1943, Page 4

TWENTY MILES

OF MOUNTAINOUS COUNTRY FACING THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY. • DEMOLITION EXPLOSIONS BEHIND ENEMY FRONT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, November 16. Twenty miles of mountainous country, constituting the German winter line, face the Fifth Army, and in these rugged hills several enemy divisions have dug strong positions, states an agency war correspondent. At Caste!forte on Monday, one group of enemy troops flew a swastika flag plainly visible from our forward posts. Patrolling was the only activity along the front, but explosions could be seen where the Germans were carrying out demolitions. One of the features of yesterday’s air activities was the debut of Yugoslav pilots against the Luftwaffe in Liberators given them by the United States Government. With American fighters they flew to the Eleusis Aerodrome, near Athens, in the first raid by heavy bombers on Greece for some time. Some of the Yugoslav pilots had ferried their planes to Cairo after receiving them from President Roosevelt. Mitchells found the weather too thick over Italy yesterday, but went across to Greece to attack Kalamaki Aerodrome, the big air base just outside Athens.