30/4/1944 9.= am. News at dictation speech.
RAF bombers from Britain were over enemy
occupied territory last night.
3 German aircraft were destroyed over this
country when a small force of raiders
crossed the S. West coast of England.
The big force of American heavy bombers
from Britain which attacked Berlin in
daylight yesterday shot down 72 German
fighters. Allied fighters destroyed 16 more.
63 American bombers and 14 American
and British fighters are missing. American
heavy bombers from Italy yesterday attacked
the French port of Toulon. In Dutch New
Guinea American troops advancing
from Hollandia have captured another
Japanese airfield in the area.
Allied aircraft have kept up their
raids on the Wewak area of New Guinea.
The Red Army front is still comparatively
quiet. More German small scale
attacks in the Carpathians foothills
weer repulsed yesterday. On the Indo-Burmese
border 14th Army troops have cut off
a Japanese force north of Kohima.
The Japanese have lost more than 5000
killed in the Imphal district.
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