Joseph Snagge. The subject being "Reading
the news"
12 pm. Reading Joseph Macleod
During the raid on Dusseldorf
five 4000 lbs. bombs were dropped
every minute and the raid was almost on
the Dortmund scale.
400 of our bombers were over Italy, Sardinia
and Sicily. Messina was the main
target. On Dusseldorf also 8000 lbs.
bombs were dropped as well as
incendiaries. The number of aircraft
employed in the raid was nearly as
large as with the Dortmund raid.
The attack was the biggest bomber raid
in bad weather. There was enemy
fighter opposition and 3 enemy fighters
were destroyed. All day long our
bombers were over Sicily, Sardinia and
Pantellaria. Messina got a terrific
hammering, considerable opposition
from enemy fighter was encountered.
Flying Fortresses destroyed 12 Messerschmidts.
Altogether 24 aircraft were shot down
and 11 of ours are missing. Long
range fighters without loss attacked
a seaplane base of Greece. Malta
had two alerts. Mr. Molotov gave
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