17.4.1944 1.= pm. Frederich Allen
Allied bombers from Italy kept up their
attacks on targets behind the Southern
Russian front.
Turnu Severin was attacked again by
heavy American bombers.
Railway yards in Central Romania 50
miles north of Ploesti were also bombed
as well as airfields and an aircraft factory
at Belgrade. Budapest was attacked too.
Budapest reported that a steamer struck
a mine in the Danube and consequently
passenger steamer service has been suspended,
Shipping of the Yugoslav coast was also
attacked. In all 1800 sorties were made,
14 enemy planes destroyed and 30 lost.
In Italy patrols are active on all
fronts. A pillbox and its defenders as
well as an ammunition dump were
destroyed. Tito reports that a ......[?]
hall was blown up whereby 80 Germans
were killed. Over 600 hostages were shot.
The Italian fascist press says that Mussolini
is dangerously ill. He has detached himself from
the world and is waiting for death to strike.
On the Crimea Jalta was reached by the
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