26/10/1943. 6= pm. Stuart Hibberd
The 5th and 8th Army made good progress
yesterday and the Germans are going
back to their next main line of defense
more rapidly during the last 24 hours.
They advanced up to 5 miles.
Americans have made most progress.
The new line over which the Germans are
retreating is 80 miles long.
Our air forces have carried out heavy
night attacks on airfields north of Rome
and two of our planes are missing.
On Sunday night 3 Middle East
aircraft were lost.
Allied troops have now been withdrawn
from the island of Kos.
4 E-boats were destroyed and 7 others
damaged when some 30 enemy
E-boats tried to attack one of our convoys
for the coast of East Anglia for 5
hours. All our ships returned
safely from the engagement. We had
casualties in two of our motor speed
boats. Less than half a dozen enemy planes
crossed our coast last night and
caused little damage and casualties.
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