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Italian based Flying Fortresses raided
the Messerschmidt aircraft factory
at Klagenfurt which is part of Wiener Neustadt.
Hits are reported on the
machine shop and railway sidings.
Some German fighters came up of
which also some fired rockets. In all
we destroyed 18 enemy planes over
Italy against a loss of 5 Allied planes.
In the Ukraine a battle of armour
is raging on a large scale against
Vatutin 's army. The Russians
report to have knocked out 130 German
tanks. To all purpose it is the
intention of the Germans to check
the Russian threat to the river Bug.
One of our correspondents in Egypt
had an interview with a few
officers of the Yugoslav partisan
army who told that the partisans
reckon 3 German casualties
against one of them.
The first batch of boys who have been
under the new scheme for
work in the mines have arrived
today at their training centres.
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