25/8/1943 8 and 9 am. (Dutch time) Frank Philips
Berlin has been bombed last night.
Moscow reports still more good news.
The Red Army made a 20 mile advance into
the Donets Basin from the East.
5 enemy raiders were destroyed over here.
The Russian army has taken the offensive
into the Donets Basin and advanced from 19 1/5 to
22 miles capturing 30 places southwest of Voroshilovgrad.
This is the result of the local successes
reported earlier.
The Germans have destructed Kharkiv systematically
by dynamiting houses, streets etc.
A week prior to the capture fighting has been extremely
fierce. Some 300 guns were placed a mile by the
Germans and their aircraft made some 1500
operational flights per day.
Our bombers were out over Germany again.
Mitchells attacked the marshalling yards at
St. Omer. Spitfires and Beaufighters and Thunderbolts
carried out operations off Holland.
Over East Anglia 5 raiders were shot down,
the raids caused no damage nor casualties
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