more Northern Greek island of Samos
are in Allied hands.
Yesterday airfields in Belgium and
France were bombed as well as industrial
targets at Béthunes.
3 of our fighters are missing.
Recent photographs of Hamburg show
the place is well in ruins for the loss of
87 of our planes.
In the last raid 50 tons of bombs
were dropped a minute for 3/4 of
an hour.
Mr. Churchill arrived back in
London yesterday.
2.= pm. Rich Wessel.
The Desna has been crossed west and northwest of
Bryansk. Novhorod-Siverskyi and Pryluky have
fallen. More attacks on Japanese airfields
in Bougainville are reported.
14 out of 60 fighters were destroyed and we
lost 8 machines when the Japanese tried
to intercept our planes.
General Blamey said the capture of
Lae is a signal on the road to victory.
The 5th Army has enlarged its bridgehead
at Salerno again and German
resistance is lessening. Reinforcements
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