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Second British Army is making slow progress but further to the West British troops are within 1 mile of Condé. The fighting in the Brittany peninsula is dying down. The 3rd American Army under General Patton however made progress in Brittany. At midday today some 1100 RAF planes bombed 5 night airfields in Holland and 4 in Belgium. Between 750 and 1000 American heavies also went to Cologne, Wiesbaden, Frankfurt and targets in Belgium and France. The Red Army has already forced the river Bóbr northeast of Dowiec [?] before storming the town. German forces in Latvia and Estonia have asked for seaborne supplies but Russian U-boats are operating off these coasts. U-boats have been transferred by the Russians from the Black Sea to the Baltic by inland waterways. Conditions at Florence are improving but there is still sniping. American planes made over 2000 sorties yesterday. One was destroyed and 10 are missing. 1 announcement that books and periodicals are wanted for the troops.
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15/8/1944
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