R. Wessel 10/8/1944 1.= pm.
American troops have reached Nantes and
others are converging on Angers and there
is fighting outside Brest.
Nantes is 30 miles up the Loire from St. Nazaire
and has a peacetime population of 180000.
It lies on the main road from Angers through
Tours and Orleans to Paris.
Le Mans had been liberated and we are also
in St. Malo but meeting with stubborn
resistance at Dinan. Morlaix is also in our
hands. Heavy fighting takes place round
Mortain. The first and second German
positions on the way to Falaise now 5
miles away have been taken. Fighter bombers
attacked German tanks, gun positions,
road and river craft. Several enemy vessels
were also damaged in attacks on his
shipping. Last night Mosquitoes had one of
their most successful nights. Barges on the
Seine were attacked as well as rolling stock
and railway targets. Near Bordeaux another
German headquarter was hit. Targets in Western
Germany were also attacked by our Mosquitoes,
mines were laid too. Marauders attacked
an ammunition dump. In these [?] August
days 11 fuel dumps have so far been bombed
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