The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-28


 hombers inflicted heavy damage.
 German broadcaStS said the raid CTS caused widespread destruction in Bucharest proper, including hit on the NaSi legation building)
 The continent-girdling fortresses landed at bases in Italy Monday after a shattering attack on the urohobycz oil refineries in south- eastern Poland, completing a mis- sion that began last Friday when they bombed the heart of Berlin.
 The four-engined giants were es- corted on the final leg of the shut tie run by the same long-range Mustang fighters that accompanied them on the long flight from Bri- tain to Russia.
 News Withheld [ Air force commanders in Italy withheld news of the three-way raid until today for security reasons.
 Some l,250 American heavy born- bers and fighters touched off the daylight bombardment of Axis Eur ope today with wide-ranging foraya against enemy transportation tar gets in the Paris area and Ger nany's Saar Valley, while RAF Hal flax bombers struck at unidentified military installations in northern Franoe. possibly the Nazi robot bomb bases.
 (The Swiss government announced in Zurich that an American heavy bamber landed in Switzerland this morning and that all ten crewmen were interned, indicating another attack on Germany was in progress.
 Although the size of the British force which hit France this morn- Ing was not disclosed, the RAF sent out approximately 750 heavy and medium hombers last night to at tack the flying bomb sites in north eyn France, from which the Ger mans still were shooting the pilot less planes into southern England.
 Considerable Number
 Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair disclosed in commons today that a ''eonsiderable number" of the robot bases had been located and de- stxoyed. and said the process was continuing. He added, however, that tt would not be in the public interest to disclose information about the nzsthcds being used by the Germans to launch the weapons.
 German airdromes at Couvroa, Athies and Juvincourt, all in the vicinity of Laon, France, were bat tered by the U. s. formation which also ranged into Germany to hit rail yards at saarbrucken, near the French border.
 Other military targets in the Paris and Laon areas were bombed by the Eighth Airforce heavies. accom- panied by strong forces of Light iaings, Mustangs and Thunderbolts. The attacks on the three airdromes were made in clear weather, al- though partial cloud formations covered the targets at Saarbrucken.
 The raids on the robot bomb launching gases in northern France by the RAT, which lost four planes, were part of widespread attacks by Ailied fighters and bombers during the night on troop concentrations and enemy communications deep Into France.
 One of the flights took six squad- fons of rocket-carrying Typhoons south of the Cherbourg Peninsula where they demolished a German Army Corps headquarters at St. Eauveur-L -Lendelin. Returning pilots said they left the Chateau smok- ing ruin. 'There may have been Q single room standing in the east wlng," one said, but l doubt It." All the planes returned safely from the attack.
 Night Operations
 The night operations rounded out e day in which the combined Allied serial forces carried out well over 5000 sorties despite bad weather @tsy the Channel and the French coastal areas.
 Despite the RAF blow ct the bomb bases, the third attack on the launching sites since yesterday morning, a number of flying bombs hit southern England this morning, although the scale of activity ap- peared much smaller than in recent days.
 The German DNB news agency reported from Berlin that Nazi planes bombed and machine-gun- ned targets in southern England lest night, but the report was not eonfirmed here.
 Fighter planes attacked the fiy- ing bombs as they approached the south coast during the night and observers reported bursts of gum Gro and vivid flashes as the bombs afeed seaward.
 Yesterdays Raids / During yesterdays raids on France the Eighth Air Force fight CTS shot up or bombed five bridges, @ harEes, three airdromes, one fuel dump. two factories. i6 freight yards 9o locomotives, 37i freight and oil cars, two troop trains. five ammuni- ton cars, 6e motor trucks, 2l fiat caFs and one complete ammunition train.
 They encountered some opposition during the operations and shot 4own i0 enemy fighters against a Aoas of four.
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