AIR OFFENSIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 December 1943, Page 3

AIR OFFENSIVE

DAY & NIGHT ATTACKS ON GERMANY AND NORTHERN FRANCE. AMERICAN HEAVY BOMBERS STRIKE AGAIN. LONDON, December 22. Mosquitos, Bostons and Typhoon bombers, escorted and covered by fighters, attacked military targets _in Northern France today. Four Allied fighters are missing. For the third day running, American heavy bombers were ou-t over north-west Germany today. No details have yet come in. • Last night R.A.F. Mosquitos were again over Western Germany. All came back. Yesterday American Marauder medium bombers escorted by R.A.F, Dominion and Allied fighters, bombed railway targets in northern France. Spitfires and Typhoons flow out to northern France, and sorties were made, one after another, by fighters flying low. It is officially reported that all the bombers returned, but eight fighters are missing . Eight enemy planes were shot down.

GREAT BATTLES MR CHURCHILL CONGRATULATES BOMBER COMMAND. . (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, December 21. Air Chief Marshal Harris, chief of the bomber Command, has received the following message from the Air Minister, Sir Archibad Sinclair; “The Prime Minister, who has been receiving full details of the recent operations, has asked me to convey his congratulations to the crews who have taken part in the series of great battles over Berlin, Leipzig, and associated attacks.” Air Chief Marshal Harris, in his reply, wished Mr Churchill a speedy convalesencc and return.