"Bad reception"
14/8-1944 9.= am.
The German 17th Army in Normandy is
struggling for survival as the Allies close in.
The battle centres on the Falaise gap
and only 20 miles now separate elements
of the American army at Argentan
and the 1st Canadian and British
Second Armies near Falaise.
The Germans are coming under a
massive air assault as they try to
pull out. Several hundred aircraft
from Italy yesterday attacked German
targets on the French and Italian
Rivieras for the tenth time in eleven
days.
In Italy the Germans who withdrew
from Florence are now in the foothills
below the so called Gothic line.
German flying bombs again came
over the English Southern counties and
the London area during the night.
Some buildings were damaged and
some casualties were caused.
Sweden has protested to Germany
about a flying bomb which crashed
in Southern Sweden last month.
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