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The Russians are enlarging their
bridgehead on the Western bank of the
Dnjestr into Bessarabia. The fall of
Vinnytsja is reported and Mohyliv-Podilskyi
has also been captured.
Bomber Command sent out a
small number of Lancasters to
bomb an explosives factory near
Bordeaux. Mosquitoes were also sent
out and returned without loss.
Our large guns fired 140 rounds in an
hour on German shipping in the
Channel. From the 1st April there is a
ban on visits to a coastal belt 10
miles from the Wash down along the
South to Land's End. Also the Firth of
Forth. In the Far East British submarines
have sunk 7 vessels whereas two
supply ships were torpedoed off the
East coast of Sumatra a gun battle
was fought with a large riverboat.
Our bombers in the S.W. Pacific smashed a
convoy trying to sent reinforcements to
Wewak. Wewak itself was bombed for the 9th day
running. Rabaul was also bombed. Many
air attacks were carried out on an atoll
in the Mid Pacific Marshal Islands.
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