Evening star., 1944-07-19
Large U. 5. Air Fleet
Blasts Railroads and
AirfieEds in Germany
Targets in Munich and
Schweinfurt Areas Hit
By Nearly $500 Planes
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July 10 Nearly
$500 American heavy bombers
and fighters in co-ordinated at
tacks from Britain and Italy at
tackled the Munich area and a
large array of rail yards, air
fields and war plants in South
ern Germany today.
More than 200 Flying Fortresses
and Liberators packed bombs from
Britain. Up to 500 more from the
United States 18th Air Force IN
Italy reached across the Alps and
bombed aircraft factories, an air
drome and an ordnance depot near
the fourth largest German city.
The United States 9th Air Force
in Britain announced it had de-
stroyed So German planes today
swelling to 319 the 36-hour total
announced by the Americans. Brit
ish and Russians. OF the new kills
36 were destroyed aground and II
in combat.
Targets Center Around Munich.
German targets, centered largely
around Munich, ranged all the way
from the rail yards of Saarbrucken
on the French frontier to the ball
bearing factories of the Schweinfurt
in the Southeast Reich.
Munich. hub of five trunk rail-
ways, one leading through the Bren-
ner Pass to the melting German
front in italy, is believed to be one
of the German sites for manufac-
ture of flying bombs, hurled in
strength against Southern England
today.
Another target was a chemical
plant at Hellriegelskreuth, on the
outskirts of Munich. a plant max
ing oxygen and hydrogen used for
the robot bombs.
Follows Up Raj Assaults.
The great raid followed close on
assaults by up to 1000 heavy British
bombers and an added number of
Mosquitoes on Berlin, Cologne, the
Ruhr, rail targets near Paris, rail-
yard yards 100 miles east of Paris
at Revigny and other objectives.
In successful attack on Ger
man convoy of Helgoland seven
Nazi ships were hit. The robot
bomb coast in Northern France was
bombed anew. and bridges over the
Seine and Eure Rivers were hit
along with batteries, mortars, strong
points, troop bivouacs, airfields, sup
ply dumps and transport support
ing the Normandy front. Planes
from Italy before dawn smashed a
rail bridge in the north, swept the
Bologna and Udine areas and at
tackled in Yugoslavia.
Other daylight targets of the
American armada in Southern Ger
many were:
A Messerschmitt fighter parts fac
tory at Kempten, southwest of Augs-
burg and IS miles northeast OF
Switzerland.
Railroad yards ut Coblenz, Saar-
brucken and Strausbourg on the
French border.
German air bases ut Lechfeld
Leipheim and Laupheim, all near
Augsburg.
6.eee Tens Dropped on Reich.
Planes from Britain alone were
estimated to have dropped more
than $1,000 tons Of bombs on France
and Germany In - hours startina
yesterday around dawn. OF thu
total. more than 5000 tons were
dropped on Germany. aside from
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