Saturday, January 14, 2012

Current Events January 14, 1944;


THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 14, 1944:
 The Russians clicked off 11 more miles on the road to Warsaw, fought to the rail centers of Mozyr and Kalinkovichi north of the Pripet marches and slugged it out violently today -with counterattacking Germans near Vinnitsa about 55 miles short of old Rumania.

 RAF Mosqnitos bombed western Germany last night, the British announced today as American intelligence officers worked to compile a final accounting of Tuesday's epic sky battle over the reich—a struggle now known to have cost the Nazis 152 fighters and seriously damaged three enemy aircraft factories.




 


                        PORTSMOUTH, N. H., FRIDAY EVENING^JANUARY 14, 1944

 Take 11 More Miles
In Steady March to
Nazi-Held Capital

(By the Associated Press)
The Russians clicked off 11 more miles on the road to Warsaw, fought to the rail centers of Mozyr and Kalinkovichi north of the Pripet marches and slugged it out violently today -with counterattacking Germans near Vinnitsa about 55 miles short of old Rumania.
 Allied planes twice bombed the Rome airfields of Centocelle and Guidcnia "with destructive force" while RAF Mosquitos annoyed Western Germany. Numerous airfields over Italy were shot up as was Perugia, 90 miles north of Rome.
Ten enemy and five Allied planes were destroyed in Italy. The U. S. Eighth air force raised to 152 the number of German fighter victims Tuesday in Central Germany when three plane factories were damaged severely in onslaughts against Oschersleben. Halberstadt,
Brunswick, Bielefeld andMeppen. The record U. S. loss was 60 bombers and five fighters.
(See complete story, this page.) In daylight sweeps over Prance yesterday,the RAF shot down, eight






                                              MORE THAN 700 U. S. Flying- Fortresses and Liberators bombed
                                              German fighter plane factories in Oschersleben, Halberstadt and Brunswick
                                              with a. loss of 60 bombers and five fighters, it was announced. Some
                                              of the planes (broken arrow) visited Berlin.
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London, Jan. 14 (AP)—
RAF Mosqnitos bombed western Germany last night, the British announced today as American intelligence officers worked to compile a final accounting of Tuesday's epic sky battle over the reich—a struggle now known to have cost the Nazis 152 fighters and seriously damaged three enemy aircraft factories. It was the first time the Mosquitos had been out since Monday night, when they bombed Berlin. The specific objectives of last night's raid, from which one plane failed to return, were not immediately disclosed.
The air ministry also announced that RAF Typhoons and fighters had shot down eight enemy planes yesterday in. the course of offensive patrols over northern Prance. One Typhoon was lost in these forays.
Fresh details meanwhile continued to trickle in on Tuesday's great American day light raid on Germany.
An official late yesterday increased enemy fightr losses from 100 In a tabulation "not yet complete," crediting bomber gunners with 125 and fighters with 27, and gave new details of damage to plants that spawn a great proportion of Nazi warplancs.
.The actual number of enemy fighters that fell before the blazing guns of the 700 American bombers and 500 escorting planes, however may never be known.


















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