Current Events January 28, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 28, 1944:




 RAF Batters
Anew At
Capital
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 Bombers Resume Obliteration Assaults
On City—Beachhead Offensive Grow*
Stiffer—Reds Near Esthonian Border—
Japs Lose 16 to 22 Planes
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By Associated PressHuge new fires licked the remains of Berlin today after a "very strong" force of British bombers assaulted the
German capital heavily last night in their remorseless campaign of obliteration. 
Allied troops enlarged their Rome bridgehead and thcBritish beat down strong German counterattacks, capturing many prisoners. French troops advanced north of Cassino on the main Italian battlefront and Americans between Cassino and the Mediterranean scaled a mountain height and advanced toward others.
Besides Berlin, other British planes attacked in western Germany and northern France. Striking up from Italy, Flying Fortresses and Liberators battered three German air bases around Marseille and Montpellier in southern France into masss of flames and destroyed at least 21 Nazi fighters.
The British lost 34 planes in the north and the Americana lost one Liberator in the south. 
Russian forces, striking out from siege-free Leningrad, captured the important rail junction of Volosovo,
39 miles from Estonia, and Tosno^ clearing all but 30 mies of the Leningrad- Moscow trunk line. Some
8,300 Germans were slain, many in savage counterattacks in the lower Ukraine and the Pripet Marshes. .
Allied warships pounded the Appian Way between the Cassino-Garigliano and Rome fronts for the third successive day while Allied planes in Italy flew more than 1,400 sorties on strategic and tactical missions.
Pacific Roundup
The Allies pounded the Marshall and Admiralty Islands in intensified air attacks seeking to weaken
the Japanese hold on the invasion menaced stepping stones leading back to the Phillipines and the tortured men of Bataan.
American bombers and fighters swept in over the Marshalls for the 21st day of the air ofensfive -against mandated group of coral islands lying halfway between Hawaii and the Solomons. Not a plane was lost
as they completed a bombing weeK in which 282^ tons of explosives fell on Japanese instalaltions.
Navy search planes sank two small ships in the first raid on Eniwetok at the northwest extremity of the strategic island chain, 300 miles and more north of the American- captured Gilberts. The, Seventh




















Army Airforce fliers, on the day, blasted Maloelap, Mili, Jaluit and Kwajalein, the later with 35 tons of bombs.
The Japanese lost a total of 16 to 22 planes Wednesday as the army bombers hit Maloelap's Taroa air
field. Not only was this the scene of the only enemy air interception, but for the first itme in the Marshall.;
campaign the enemy pursued the retiring raiders.



Almost Unbelievable Story of Japan's Treatment
Of Heroes of Bataan, Corregidor Released by U. S.
 (See report in Stars and Stripes January 29, 1944)