The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
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reconnaissance showing that the city still was being used as mili- tary communications center despite all warnings and the previous raid Trains carrying military supplies and endorsements for German and Italian troops in southern Iatly and Sicily are made up in the San Lorenzo and Littorio switchyards.
 All aircraft were from the stra- tegic air force commanded by Maj. Gen. James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle.
 An italian communique said the bombers attacked Rome and sur rounding air fields" and another Italian broadcast reported that Pope Plus XII left the Vatican immedi- ately after the raid and began a tour of the bombed areas.
 The Italian communique also re- ported huge damage" in Milan and Turin. The German Transocean Agency said all district of Milan were hit. The Barino palace op- posite La Scala opera house was destroyed by fire, the agency said, and one spire of the cathedral was hit. The central railway station also was hit, but the agency said only slight damage resulted.
 Debris Cluttered Streets
 Debris still cluttered the streets of Turin and Milan from Saturday nights raids when the formations arrived last night. A German broad cast said the rumble of bomb ex- plosions could be heard as far away as Bern, 130 miles from both Milan and Turin.
 There were no details available of the raid on Berlin by the speedy. plyWood Mosquito bombers but it was grim reminder to the in- habitants that the nights had heightened sufficiently for the RATS night raiders to make their city a regular port of call.
 A German broadcast said flew" planes bombed scattered points" in Berlin but caused only insignificant damage"
 It was the first raid on Berlin since the night of May 2l, after which the shorter periods of dark ness made 1t impractical for the RAF to attack the city. Berlin now has been raided 68 times since the start of the war.
 Unparalleled Blows
 Fighters and fighter -bombers also participated in what appeared to have been a night of unparalleled blows against both ends of the vt Iov ntt af 1nact 10 1nrNr,n- tives, shooting down an intercepting night fighter and bombing airhelds in France, Holland and Belgium and Wrecking minesWeeper and an enemy torpedo boat of the French coast.
 Thirteen bombers were lost in the raids over Italy and Germany, but all fighters and fighter bombers got through safely
 Significantly, the record night raids followed close on the heels of yesterdays heavy daylight attack by American Flying Fortresses on Gel senkirchen, Bonn and Wesselring in western Germany another indi- cation of the rising tempo of the Allied aerial offensive.
 Swiss reports told of vast, spread ing conf1agrations racing through Milan and Turin, turning the sky a rosy glow easily visible from the Swiss side of the border.
 Heavy Attack
 Possible targets at Milan, which the air ministry said was weary heavily" attacked, included the Caproni Air craft Works, Breda armament plants Alfa Romeo automobile and air. plane engine works, the Isotta Fraschini motor works and the Mar elli magneto works.
 Turin has, beside the royal ar- senal, the huge Fiat airplane engine works, the Lancia transport shops and the Montecatani chemical works. Both cities are important communications centers.
 The loss of only 13 bombers dur ing the night, of which most prob- ably were shot down during the l.200-mile round trip flight to Italy, was taken as an indication that Italy's anti-aircraft defenses have not been strengthened to any great extent.
 It was the 10th attack of the war on Milan and the 30th on Turin.
 German planes struck back feebly by dropping few bombs in coast al district of East Anglia that caused little damage and no casual ties.
 Londoners Cheer
 Londoners stood in the streets and waved and cheered last night as a great force of four -engined bomb- ers-presumably part of the forma-