Allied aircraft are hitting German communications
in the rear. In North Burma British troops are now
half a mile from Sinbow [?] on the railway to
Mandalay. In the South West Pacific Americans
troops have cut across the Japanese retreat
from the coast of the Vogelkop peninsula in
Dutch New Guinea. In the Indian Ocean
Allied air and naval units have attacked
Japanese targets on the West Coast of
Sumatra.
28/8/1944. 1.= pm. R. Wessel
Allied columns across the upper Seine are
broadening their front to the Marne and we
are also pushing toward the flying bomb belt.
Beyond Paris the Marne has been cleared for
25 miles. Allied elements have pushed beyond
Troyes. The battle area is already going out to
Luxembourg and Alsace-Lorraine. The Bois de
Boulogne near Paris has been cleared and in
Paris itself more snipers are being wiped out.
Three operations are going on west of
the Seine, viz. mopping up, bridging the
Seine, reinforcing. The German pocket is now
only 4 miles deep. Bridging the Seine at Pont-de-l'Arche
continues. Our planes kept up
their attacks on evening transport in the Dieppe-
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