Evening star., 1944-05-10

bombers raided Vienna and
nearby Wiener Neustadt in
Austria today.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. May 10.-The Allies
threw another series of armadas,
probably totaling 1000 planes,
against German defenSeS of
Europe last night and today,
blasting front-line airfields and
railways and ar-supporting in
duStries with more than 5000
tons of bombs in preparation for
the invasion.
German accounts, telling of vio-
lent aerial battles over the Eastern
Alps, indicated this massed aerial
strength was being supplemented by
Mediterranean. Air Force "heavies'
perhaps striking at Austrian targets.
An Ankara broadcast said Bucha-
rest, in Romania, was bombed
A night feet of approximately 750
British bombers carried their great
est load of the 26-day offensive in
smashing at both Berlin and Paris
and hitting at least 10 targets of the
highest priority, including the An
necy ballbearing works near the
Italian frontier in France.
1,000-Mile Round Trip.
The British rode 1000 miles in
bright moonlight in attacking the
Annecy objective.
Then waves of medium, light and
fighter bombers streamed across the
Channel with their tons of explo-
Sives.
Marauders and Havocs dropped
more than $50 short tons of bombs
on three rail centers in Belgium and
France today and on an airfield near
Amiens. Two bombers failed to
return.
The heaviest attack, it was an
nounced, was on the railway wards
at Criel. Is miles northeast of Paris
by about 100 Marauders. which hit
a roundhouse and locomotive shops.
Journal Yards Raided.
Two waves of planes, with Ma
rauders following the Havocs in, hit
rail yards at Journal, Belgium. Is
miles east of Lille, with good results.
Crews OF the Marauders said they
left 12,000-foot columns of smoke
rising from rolling stock at Mons.
50 miles southwest of Brussels, on
the main Paris s-Brussels line.
A small force of Marauders hit the
alrfleld at Polk, near Amiens.
While British heavy bombers last
night concentrated on military and
industrial objectives in France, in
Guiding an aircraft foundry and
stamping plant in the Paris sub
urb of Gennevilliers, swift Mosuui-
toes unloaded many 4,0OO-pound
blockbusters on Berlin, still smoul-
dering from heavy American at
tacks on Sunday and Monday.
In all its night operations the
Raj lost seven aircraft, the Air
Ministry announced.
"very Rapid" Attack.
The Gennevilliers plants were
bombed in a very rapid" attack
which the Air Ministry said was
well concentrated despite a heavy
anti-aircraft barrage.
A force of Lancasters bombed the
ballbearing factory at Annecy and
nearly the whole works appeared TO
be on fire after bombs fell among
accurate markers, it was announced
The Journal de Geneva at Geneva
said the Annecy attack caused enor-
nous damage and that the smashing
OF rail facilities halted rail traffic.
The Air Ministry disclosed the
Germans were using the Annecy
factory extensively for making cast
ings for airplane engines since the
hall-bearing plants at SchWeinfurt
were damaged so heavily recently
United States Air Force head
quarters, meanwhile, announced
that photographs made during yes
terday's raids showed good results
on three rail freight yards and
seven of eight airdromes attacked
Targets Well Identified.
Pilots returning from all the Brit
ish-oased night runs said the night
was clear and the targets well iden-
tined. Flyers who bombed Genne-
vllliers late in the attack said they
found fires started and explosions
continuing inside the factory with
the whole target enveloped in smoke
One Mosquito pilot said the night
was so clear he could see all the dis
tnctlve landmarks of Berlin.
1t was one of the sWifteSt attacks
we ever made on Berlin" he said
All the searchlights around and in
SIDE the capital were switched on as
we got near the city and ground
eunners opened up on us. But we
were in and out before they could
get the range"
$50 Bombers in Raid.
British communique said the
night attack on French targets was
carried out in strength" indicating
perhaps $50 bombers participated
dropping about 2.800 tons of bombs
on multiple detectives.
More than 1000 planes flew
against the continent Yesterday
from Britain alone and loosed pos
slbly 5000 tons of bombs on in
vasion defenses, The main attack
was by about 1000 American heavy
bombers against rail centers and
alrdromes at cost of six bombers
and seven fighters. Five German
fighters were shot down.
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