airfield. In Burma things are still going well.
Pressure is being kept up on Mogaung and
Myitkyina.
1.12 end
20/6/1944. 6.= pm. Wardell
The Americans made good headway on the Cherbourg
peninsula and Cherbourg itself is now only 5 miles
in front of our patrols. We are 2 miles from Valognes.
Originally we by-passed Montebourg but it is now
reported that the Americans occupied the place or
at least what is left of it and are now beyond it.
On the West coast of the peninsula our barrier is
5 miles wide and on the other side 16 miles.
Off the beaches weather is bad with a nasty 20 miles
and hour wind blowing from the North East. Waves
are 5 foot high. In daylight German mobile batteries
are in action but E-boats are doing very little.
Over 1500 Fortresses and Liberators with an escort
of between 500 and 750 fighters attacked several
more oil refineries today in the Hamburg, Hannover,
Brunswick and Magdeburg areas. A tank
repair depot and spare plane parts factory were also
among the targets. Marauders went also out
attacking launching ramps for pilot less
planes in the Pas de Calais over a stretch of 30
miles from the south of Calais to the north of
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