Evening star., 1944-05-30
.2,200-P|ane
Armada Again
Hits Europe
Third Mass Attack
In Three Days Made
By U. S. Bombers
BY the Associated Press.

LONDON, May 30.-The third
2,200-plane American sky ar
mada in three days swept wide
over Germany, France and the
Low Countries today, blasting
dozen aircraft factories, rail-
road centers and airbases.
simultaneously, and for the Sec
|ond straight day, another sky ar
mada swept up from Italy toward
Hitler's beleaguered German fort
resses from the south.
The Berlin broadcaSts reported
three great air battles raging-two
over Central Germany and another
over the Alps.
Targets Identified.
Targets of the Britain-b based fleets
were aircraft plants at Dessau,
Oschersleben and Halberstadt, in
Germany; railroad yards at Brus-
Isels, Belgium, and Reims and Troyes,
in France; air bases at Handorf,
near Munster; Diepholz, near Osna-
bruk; Halberstadt and in the Ham
burg area.
Allied headquarters at Naples an
nounced that the American-fighter
fleets sweeping into Austria and
Southern Germany from the south
had hit the Wiener Neustadt area
near Vienna, bombing the Neudorfl
aircraft factory, the Pottendorf
spinning mills nine miles to the
northwest, the Ebreichsdorf carpet
factory II miles to the northeast
and the Neunkirchen spinning mills
10 miles to the southwest. All the
factories had been converted into
the production of Messerschmitt
fighter parts.
Yug0slavia Raided.
Other groups of unescorted Flying
Fortresses bombed rail yards at
zagreb, in Yugoslavia, and still
others OF the $50 to 500 heavy
bombers participating in the days
operations hit an aircraft factory
and nearby airdrome at Wells, 10
miles southwest of Linz, in Southern
Germany.
The Memorial Day parade of AL
lied planes across the Channel was
led by American Thunderbolt fight
ers, following an attack last night
by Raj Mosquitoes on Hanover. in
Central Germany.
Without single loss, the Mos
quitos attacked the German base at
Nantes, off the western coast OF
France, and unspecified installations
in Western Germany, the Air Min
istry said.
168 NaZi Planes Downed.
The night RAF operations came
after a heavy two-day assault yes
terday from Britain and Italy in
which 1853 enemy planes were shot
down at a cost of SIS bombers and
rs lesser planes.
Skies over the Dover Strait were
dotted for long period this morn
ing, with one Allied formation after
another hitting out for the conti-
nent, while explosions and antiair-
craft fire echoed from the opposite
shore.
The Mediterranean Army Air
Force announced its medium
bombers attacked objectives at
Fruersbrunn in Austria last night
| The MAAF, summarizing the re-
suits of the raid on airdromes, air.
craft plants and railyards in Aus
tria yesterday by force of posi-
bly, 750 heavy bombers and fighter
escorts, said 68 enemy aircraft were
destroyed against a loss of 20 Amer
ican heavy bombers and IA other
aircraft.
Germans Raid England.
The Germans raided Southern
England for the second consecutive
night, one wave bombing a south
west shore community while other
planes cruised along the caost, evil
IDENTIFY trying to spot invasion prep
arations.
The Nazis, doubling their bomb
ing score of the night before, hit
two hotels Five dead and several
seriously injured persons were
brought out during the night, and
rescuers still dug for others today.
The Monday operations cost the
United States Strategic Air Force IS
bombers and IL fighters a COM
munique announced last night. One
hundred enemy planes were shot
from the sky by American planes
based in Britain.