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Air Marshal Sir Roderic Hill talked to a Canadian squadron which has now destroyed over 100 German planes. Early yesterday morning Germans and Hungarians threw in a lot of fresh troops against the Russian bridgehead at Tiraspol. 4000 German trooped were killed and 100 tanks knocked out. Long distance bombers from Russia bombed Lublin 95 miles SE of Warsaw. The mopping up of troops west of Sebastopol continues. Over 61500 prisoners were taken in the fighting on the Crimea including 2 Generals and a number of Colonels. Russian Black Sea aircraft have caused very severe losses during the campaign. 96 fully loaded transports and some 100 other craft were destroyed. During an offensive sweep off the French coast one ship was hit and left ablaze, others damaged. All ours returned safely with a small number of casualties. A Review on recent fighting in the Pacific was given by Robson who said a.o. that air supremacy gave us naval supremacy and that the Americans construct an airfield in a week for which the Japanese require 2 months.
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13/5/1944
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