Evening star., 1944-01-15
RAF Drops 2 900 Tons Of Bombs
On Brunswick Nazi ziP|ane Center;
Mosquitoes Attack Berlin Aqain
Raid Follows Up
Big U. S. Assault;
80 Planes Lost
By the Associated Press.

~ tiie AosoCldleO ETeSS.
LONDON, Jan. 15.-Stepping
up the Allies preinvasion cam
paign to wipe out the German
Air Force. RAF heavy bombers
last night dropped 1000 tons of
bombs on Brunswick, in Central
Germany, and left large fires
burning in that plane producing
center.
The heavy load was loosed in %
minutes, setting a new record for
bomb concentration of 81 tons per
minute. 1t exceeded the previous
concentration of 1919 bombs per
minute attained in the 2,5OO-ton at
tack on Hanover September %.
Last nights attack, which the Air
Ministry described as very heavy"
came as a followup to the American
daylight raid of last Tuesday when
Flyng FortresSeS and Liberators
bombed German targets, including
the Messerschmitt factory at Bruns-
wick.
Last nights attack against Bruns-
wick and other operations cost the
British 38 aircraft.
Berlin Attacked Again.
AS the main RAF force was over
Brunswick Mosquito bombers re-
turned again to attack Berlin and
other planes bombed Magdeburg,
southwest of Berlin, and targets in
Northern France.
The overnight blow at Nazi de-
Tense fighters swung the Allied aerial
offensive into und-the-clock at
tack again, following by only a few
hours day-long assault on military
targets in Northern France by strong
formations of American Liberators
and FortreSses, medium Marauders
and Allied medium and light bomb
erS, fighter -bombers and sWarms of
fighters.
Nine enemy craft were destroyed
In the daylight raids by the Ameri-
can heavy bombers, and 18 more by
their lighter escorts, and by Allied
medium and light bombers and their
escorts. Allied losses in yesterdays
daylight operations were Is planes
s OF them heavleS.
1,400 Planes in Action.
Yesterdays daylight attacks
against the so-called rocket gun
coast" called into action in the
neighborhood of 400 Allied planes.
Last nights twin blows by the heavy
bombers and the Mosquitoes made
the fourth United Nations air as
sault against the Germans within |
"a hours.
One hundred Russian bombers en-
tered the attack yesterday, bombing
a German Black Sea convoy, and
far-ranging Raj planes raided more
Nazi shipping off Norway, torpedoing
two vessels.
Brunswick, city of 100000 popu-
lation which lies 100 miles west of
Berlin, was last hit by the RATS
night raiders on September q. In
addition to planes its plants turn
out artillery, motorcycles, tractors
and railway equipment. In the
Tuesday raid American bombers
also attacked Oschersleben, Hal
berstadt, Bielefeld and Meppen.
Many Fires Raging.
RAF and Canadian flyers re-
turning from last nights raid said
Brunswick resembled a "city that
wasn't blacked out" because of the
many fires left raging.
1T was just like daylight" one
of the flyers said. Fires ON the
ground lit up the clouds and in
turn the clouds lit up the skies.
You could see the big bombs going
off,"
Magdeburg, Elbe River city
about 80 miles southwest of Berlin
which the RATS Mosquitoes went on
to blast last night, is an important
chemical and war manufacturing
city.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet
said about 100 Mosquitoes made last
nights attack on Berlin.
He said the capitals wailing
sirens sent residents scurrying to
shelters shortly after 7 pm. and
added that the extent of damage
was unknown.
The Nazis put up an unusually
intensive although Intellectual oppo-
(See RAIDS, Page A-SD