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equal to the best record made
against Hamburg on July II ana
against Berlin on September 3.
Frankfurt is only 100 miles to
the south. Strong opposition was
reported on the American raids,
but there were indications that the
multiple flows into Germany had
ratified the enemy defenses.
The Kassel attack was accom-
panied by Mosquito raid on Han
mover, 80 miles to the north. The
filters in the Kassel raid saw anti
aircraft and searchlight barrages
open up in Hanover and al
Cologne, 100 miles to the west
but encountered no fighters until
they were nearly through W II h
their work.
The raids today were the first
by Americans on both Franklin
hit many times by the Raj
and st. Dizier which is 100 miles
northeast of Bordeaux n d $50
miles south of the English chan
mel. The St. Dizier attack was one
of the Fortresses' deepest pene-
trations into France.
The North Sea operation was the
first Liberator raid in this theater
since early last month, when Lib
orators participated in the Allies
eight-day cross-channel bombing OF
a convoy along the Dutch coast
and targets in northern France.
Since then Eighth Air Force Lib
orators have raided Wiener Neu'
stadt in Austria as well as Corsica
and other Mediterranean targets
with the Northwest African All
Force.
Reconnaissance pilots said thai
eight hours after the 1900 lons
tons, or 1880 Americans tons, hac
been cascaded on Kassel, fires
were burning so furiously h
curtains of smoke were encoun
tered 80 miles northeast of the
city.
Sweeping in and out of Germany
ON an 800-mile round trip the For
tresses made their first precision
attack of the war on Frankfurt
whose big rubber, automobile
chemical and rail facilities give i
high priority on Allied lists o.
German targets marked for oblit
GRAFTON.
The escorting Thunderbolts
equipped with extra gasoline tank:
for the long haul, did not suffer
single loss as they knocked doWr
10 intercepting German fighters.
The Raj loss from the Kasse
attack and subsidiary Mosquito
bomber thrusts at Hanover ane
the Rhineland, and the laying O.
mines in enemy waters, was q
planes.
The Mosquito assaults at Han
mover so confused the Germans
returning pilots said, that Kas
sells defenders delayed going into
action.
The filters said they saw su1
and searchlight barraees start W
around Hanover and Cologne, ~
miles to the west, which was no
attacked. Not until the end OF tn
furious half-hour explosive CASCADE
did German night fighters begin
arriving in force over Kassel. On
huge explosion was touched off a
Kassel early in the attack, the.
said.
Kassel was one of the place
flooded when the Raj daringl
ripped holes in the Moline dan
last May.
The Fortress blow at Frankfurt
80 miles southwest of Kassel, sen
the latest Allied aerial offensiv
from Britain spinning into it
fourth day. while the new two
way campaign against German.
from Britain and Africa has re
suited in the blasting of II mao
enemy targets in a fortnight.
Aside from the heavy damag
inflicted on the sprawling German
war machine, the Allied raider
probably have been averaging cas-
ily % German fighter victims dali
in recent operations.