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from Flushing but they secured 2
bridgeheads. On the Leopold canal the
Canadians have to fight savage resistance
and their bridgehead was further compressed.
Canadians advancing north
of Antwerp are within a mile of the road
and railway leading into Beveland.
The Germans fight defensive battles
round Tilburg and Den Bosch.
In the hip at Nijmegen there is uneasy
silence but both forces are massing
up. Beyond Aachen the Germans are
fighting hard to avoid a complete
link-up of our troops which would
cut off the town itself. House to house
battles are being fought in Aachen itself.
1100 bombers of the U.S. 8th Air Force today
attacked targets in the Schweinfurt,
Koblenz and Mainz districts. Some
750 fighters escorted them. Yesterday
hundreds of Thunderbolts and
Lightnings of the U.S. 9th Air Force
attacked German airfields.
64 German planes were destroyed
on the ground and 94 planes damaged.
Marauders and Havocs attacked
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