22/3/1944 1.= pm. Joseph Macleod
Bitter hand to hand fighting still goes on
in and around Cassino.
Sharp patrol clashes take place on the
8th Army front. Railway installations
in and around Rome were Bombed.
At Tarquinia North West of Rome a
bridge was destroyed.
4 enemy planes were destroyed and
4 Allied planes are missing. Allied
planes made 800 sorties against some
40 enemy planes active over the
battlefield. On account of the eruption
of the Vesuvius 14000 people are to be
evacuated. 2 places have been swallowed
by the lava streams. Of San Sebastiano
only the spire of the church can be
seen. The lava goes 1200 feet up into the
air and the column of steam going up
from the crater is 1 1/2 mile high.
In attacks on this country 9 enemy
raiders were destroyed. The attack was
mainly against London, East and South
East England and Bath. Incendiaries and
high explosives were dropped. Casualties
and damage are reported. Mosquitoes
last night bombed objectives in Western
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