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the two fronts, but the news is encouraging. The
more so as the initial results of the landing
in the beachhead have been disappointing.
It is now possible to telephone from Anzio
to Naples.
The Germans themselves report that they
withdrew from the coastal sector.
The Appian Way (Via Appia) has already
been cut. Terracina has now also been
taken as well as a place 2 miles from
Priverno. The Canadians took - on Empire Day -
Pontecorvo. British troops pinned
down the enemy at Aquino and Piedimonte
is nearly surrounded. Our planes made
nearly 3000 sorties including a raid on
aircraft factories near Vienna and an
airfield at Graz in Austria. Our planes
gave special attention to German transport
pulling out in daylight with the result
that 359 motor vehicles were destroyed
and 294 damaged.
The great number of planes going out this
morning attacked railway targets,
airfields and other objectives behind the
Westwall in N.E. France and Belgium. Between
500 and 750 fighters escorted.
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