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a day at General Alexander's advanced headquarters.
Including an attack on a tank factory at
Steyr in Austria our Mediterranean planes
made 1900 flights. 2 enemy planes were destroyed
and 8 of ours are missing.
Russian planes, according to the Germans,
raided the Romanian port of Constantza.
East of Warsaw Russian troops gained
ground and a further advance is reported
in Estonia. 150 places were taken and
Russian troops are nearing ?
On Saturday in all the fighting 250 tanks
were destroyed. The Japanese mainland
was raided twice, once in daylight and
once by night. Yawata the steel centre was
also included. Japanese flak was
fairly heavy and accurate. The Japanese
say it was their heaviest raid so far.
12 Japanese fighters were shot down by the
Superfortresses. The Japanese are withdrawing
their air forces from the South
West Pacific and leaving these without
protection. In Burma the 1st village has
been recaptured from the Japanese. A 27000
tons aircraft carrier, carrying 80 planes, was
launched in the USA. There have been some
flying bombs in daylight today. There is to be more
pay for auxiliary police etc. The increase amounts
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