19/7/1944 6.= pm Wardell
1200 Liberators and Flying Fortresses attacked a list of targets
in Germany this morning viz factories, railway yards and airfields
in South and Southwest Germany. Leghorn has fallen.
The Germans report great defensive battles over a front of
800 miles in the East. The attacks today included a
Messerschmidt components factory near Augsburg,
chemical factory near Munich, airfield at Augsburg
and railway yards at Koblenz, Saarbrücken and Strasbourg.
Photographs taken since yesterday's raid on the Luftwaffe
experimental stations on the Baltic coast show considerable
damage. More flying bombs came to London and Southern
England today and a number of them were destroyed. Very good news
is reported from both sides of Italy. Leghorn has been captured
today and American engineers are already busy getting the port in
order. Leghorn is Italy's third biggest port. Pontedera east of Pisa
and on the river Arno has also been taken and our planes made 2100
flights including the already reported attacks on Friedrichshafen.
18 of our aircraft are missing and 66 enemy planes were
destroyed. The Germans report battles between Galicia and Lake
Peipus. Heavy battles are also raging in the direction of Lwow and Russian
troops are within 25 miles of the place after advancing thirty miles in 3 days.
Soviet troops are also less than 10 miles from Brest-Litovsk and have broken
into the Latvia Republic on a front of 60 miles. The Government Housing
Plan got a second reading in the Commons. BBC notice about the
"Listener". Ministry of Health announcement and GPO reminder
about correct address for forces' letters to Normandy
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