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7 heavies and 16 other machines. It
has now been announced that our
Liberators carried out extensive mining
operations of the Danube which covers
a great area. There is no news about
air operations this morning but judging
by the roar of engines of planes going
overhead and the behaviour of enemy
radio stations which are either off the
air or giving warnings, things must
be going on again. Three squadrons
of Mosquitoes attacked Ludwigshafen
and Aachen last night.
Mines were also laid and two planes
are missing. It has been announced
that rocket firing aircraft are being
used by us since June last year against
shipping off the European coasts.
Planes are fitted with 8 rockets of which
2 can be fired but also all 8 can be
fired. Rockets are no substitute for
the torpedo but being used against
smaller ships. Factories and previously
motorcars, textiles, wallpaper
and bicycles are now making rockets.
14 days ago we also got news that in
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