25/4/1944. 1.= pm. Frank Philips
Bomber Command aircraft went out
in very great strength last night with
Karlruhe and Munich as the main
targets. 30 aircraft are missing.
The Allied air offensive seems to go on
without pause as the radio warning
system in Germany has been busy all
morning reporting Allied planes over
West, South and South West Germany.
Both attacks last night were well concentrated.
Fires were seen over a large area.
Dusseldorf was attacked by Mosquitoes
and also railway installations near
Paris. Mines were also laid. At Karlsruhe
there is an important tyre factory.
In daylight yesterday the Americans
bombed airfields at Munich and also
Friedrichshafen near the Swiss border.
103 enemy planes were brought down.
38 bombers and 17 fighters were lost.
Bombers from Italy bombed Rumanian
railway yards at Bucharest and Ploesti.
27 enemy planes were destroyed
and 14 planes lost in the 2000 flights
which were made. Aircraft factories at
Belgrade, shipping off the Yugoslavian
coast and ports and railways in Italy
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