31/8/1943. 2.=pm. (Dutch time) Stuart Hibberd
Last night our home based bombers made
a heavy and concentrated attack
on an industrial area in the Rhineland.
Our Mosquitoes were over Duisburg.
Mönchengladbach .....[?] 15 miles west
of Düsseldorf was heavily attacked.
28 of our bombers are missing.
Airfields in France and the Low Countries
were also bombed.
Mediterranean aircraft day and night
attacked railways, communications and
airfields in Italy a.o. an airfield north of
Rome and Civitavecchia.
We lost 15 planes and 21 of the enemy were
destroyed.
The Russians are mopping up pockets
of the enemy between Marioepol and
Taganrog. There has been a general
standstill of Danish workers.
Prominent politicians are under
arrest. The position of the King and the
royal family is unclear but supposed
to be under German guard.
A Catalina flying boat scored a bomb hit
of 500 lbs. on a Japanese cruiser. In July USA
war production was 3% higher than in June
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