11/10/1943. 8.= am. Frank Phillips
For the third day running Americans
bombers and their escort planes
destroyed over a hundred enemy fighters
which opposed them.
There is no news from Italy.
Yesterday the American 8th air force
struck another crippling blow on
the Luftwaffe. Münster's railway
installations and junctions as
well as Kolberg [?] were attacked.
One of our formations was opposed
by some 200 enemy fighters.
Fortresses shot down 81 machines
and escorting Thunderbolts
another 21. 30 Fortresses and 2
Thunderbolts are missing.
The American air forces is said in
London to have dropped on Germany
this month 4400 tons of bombs
and destroyed 540 enemy planes.
On Saturday aircraft factories
at Marienburg were attacked.
North of the Volturno German tanks
units are assembling but so far
the 5th Army has not attempted a
crossing of the rain swollen river
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