and Caen.
At Tilly-la-Campagne in the area of
Bourguébus the Canadians are probing
the German lines. Today there was a
ceiling of light clouds over the Straits of Dover.
On the Eastern front the Russians shells of
long range guns are already falling on
German soil. The German statement
that Kaunas was lost by them yesterday was
not true as street fighting was still taking
place there yesterday.
Planes from Italy yesterday also raided
oil centres at Bucharest and Ploesti.
Only during 2 days in July our heavy
bombers were kept grounded in
Italy on account of the weather.
In July 475 Allied planes were lost in Italy
and 680 enemy aircraft destroyed.
The special warning for danger of
flying bombs will be 3 blasts on a claxon.
2/8/1944. 9.= am.
In France American tank forces have
pushed more than 12 miles southwest
of Avranches and reached the border
of Brittany. In a week the Americans
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