MANY ATTACKS
MADE BY ALLIED AIR FORCES.
RAILWAY & PORT TARGETS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, December 29. Italian ports on both sides of Rome, aerodromes round Rome and North Italian rail centres were heavily attacked yesterday, states an Air communique. Large forces of heavy bombers, escorted by long-range fighters, attacked the railway yards . at Rimini and Vicenza. Medium bombers attacked airfields near Rome. At Ciampino, hangars, buildings and a dispersal area were well covered by strikes. Guidonia and Centocelle were accurately bombed. Fighters perambulated over the land battle area, while fighter-bombers damaged rolling stock near Fercntino and bombed a railway bridge near Castello and the ports of Anzio and Netturno. Twenty enemy aircraft were destroyed. Eleven of ours are missing but some of these may have landed in our territory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1943, Page 3
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134MANY ATTACKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1943, Page 3
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