28-9-1943. 9.= am. Fr. Philips.
Russian progress is reported on all fronts between
Smolensk and the Kuban and they are 15 miles
away from Gomel. The suburbs of Dnipropetrovsk
have been reached. The Red Army gained
more valuable ground on all fronts
and 1000 places were taken. The Allies have
closed in on Dnipropetrovsk where hard
fighting took place the Germans being anxious
to keep the suburbs. The Russians are less than
20 miles from Kremenchuk.
Yesterday 58 fighters were destroyed
over Germany and France. We lost 18 planes
viz. 7 heavy bombers, 1 medium bomber
and 10 fighters. Flying Fortresses bombed the
port of Emden. These Fortresses were escorted
on their longest escorted flight by Thunder-
bolts. Of the enemy planes 22 fell as
victims of our Thunderbolts the other
18 being shot down by the Fortresses.
Emden is an important port.
Raids were also made on N. France and
when darkness fell we went out again.
Last night we were over Germany again.
George Higgs, an American reporter
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