30-9-1943. 9.= am. Frederick Allen
Our bombers were out over Germany last
night.
The Red Army have captured Kremenchuk and an
island in the Dnjepr 1/4 of a mile from Kiev.
In dead alone the Germans lost thousands.
The struggle for Kremenchuk has lasted 3
days and eventually the place was
captured by storm.
In the Gomel area 170 towns and villages
were captured.
120 places were captured in the Smolensk
area as well as a place halfway between
Smolensk and Vitebsk so that the Russians
are now 40 miles from this place.
In Italy our troops are less than 20
miles from Naples and for 48 hours our
troops are entering the Naples plain.
Tough action but small in scale took
place at Pompeii which place 14 miles from
Naples was captured.
In our advance on Finschhafen we have
captured more enemy positions.
Spitfires and other fighters have shot up
railway engines in N. France and
barges off the Dutch coast. Our planes have
blown up the main Japanese ammunition store
at Wewak.
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