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The targets were aircraft factories at Wiener Neustadt
and Vienna. Airfields and railway targets
north of Rome were also attacked as well as
gun positions in the Anzio and Nettuno
beachheads. Last night Wellingtons, Liberators
and Halifaxes bombed harbours on the West
coast of Italy. 1500 flights were made.
In Italy little land fighting takes place
and our artillery blew up an ammunition
dump in Cassino. Marshal Tito has
asked the Yugoslavs to sabotage chrome
supplies to Germany now. Turkey has stopped
supplies and Greece and Yugoslavia are the
only sources. He asked the workers to
wreck the mines. In the S.W. Pacific Allied
forces landed on three more places on the
West coast of New Guinea under personal
supervision of General MacArthur. The landing
came as a surprise to the Japanese. The only
opposition was halfhearted machine gunfire.
No ships were lost in the action. Hollandia
in Dutch New Guinea was captured. 60000
Japanese troops or so are now cut off at
Madang and Wewak. Widespread air attacks
were also made. On the Russian front
local fighting is reported from the Narva and
Stanislaw sectors. On the Crimea enemy
airfields near Sebastopol were raided.
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