Evening star., 1944-07-12
1000 u. ). Planes
Blast Munich, Others
Hit Southern France
Force Operating From
Italian Bases Bombs
Four RoiI Torgets
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, July 12.-Nearly
1000 American planes battered
the great South German city OF
Munich again today. while an
other force from Italy struck
once more into the south OF
France, bombing four rail tar
gets. -g's
More than 1900 Of the planes as
saulting Munich on this second sue
cessive day were heavy bombers
the rest were long-range fighters
The Swiss said three planes landed
on their territory.
Targets of the heavy bombers
which flew from Italy were the
Mines and Miramas railyards, the
Var River rail bridge and the Theole
Sur Mer Bridge. Mines and Mira
mas are 81 miles and "a miles north
west of Marseille, respectively, and
the Var River is just west of Nice.
Up to 750 fighters conveyed the
Fortresses and Liberators to Ger
manys fourth largest city, a rail-
way bottleneck for traffic into Italy
and France and site of numerous
German war industries.
Fuel Dumps Attacked.
American medium and light
bombers simultaneously attacked
three important fuel dumps behine
German lines in Normandy.
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day carried out five attacks in Nor
mandy in support of the ground
forces.
A quarter hour apart, two forces
of Marauder medium bombers hit
fuel dump 10 miles south of Caen
in the Cinelais Forest. Troop con-
centrations there also were at
tackled. Two other Marauder groups
followed up with 45-minute assault
on a dump in the Ecourvres Forest
36 miles south of Caen. Havoc light
bombers went after cache of gaso-
line and oil in Andaine Forest,
miles east of the front.
Nazi Convoy Strafed.
All the dumps contained fuel of
Marshal Erwin Rommels seven tank
divisions massed against the British
and Canadians.
A German convoy approaching
besieged st. Lo on the American END
of the French front was strafed, a.
were machine-gun positions nearby
Marauders started the day by
bombing a rail bridge over the Eure
River 80 miles west of Paris.
The American return to Munich
marked the third straight day OF
round-the-clock attacks on Ger.
many. Monday and Tuesday nights
Mosquitoes carried the burden, cast
ing 2-ton bombs on Berlin.
On the Eastern and Western
Normandy fronts yesterday Allied
fighter and rocket planes
destroyed % German tanks ano
damaged l6 more. This is equal
to about one-fitth of the tank
strength of German armoreo
division.
Weather Continues Bad,
The coup against the enemy armol
was executed despite bad weather
which kept support sorties down te
a low total OF 100. The weather
continued bad last night and opera.
tions for the third night running
were confined to simultaneous at.
tacks by Raj Mosquitoes behind thu
German battle lines and in thu
Reich itself. The Mosquitoes at.
tackled industrial targets in thu
Ruhr Valley without loss.
Sky fleets totaling some 4,0Ot
planes, including heavy bomber!
from both Britain and Italy
pounded three vital German target.
yesterday-the Munich area, Toulor
on the Mediterranean and flying.
bomb sites in Northern France.
One force last night hit industria
installations In the German Ruhl
and others attacked Nazi transpor
and supply dumps in the Chalons.
Vitry area. 80 miles east of Paris.
Twenty Bombers Lost.
German flying was so restricted
over the Normandy battlefields yes
terday that only three NaM Graf
were destroyed. Eleven Allied plane,
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