Tuesday, May 8, 2012

May 8, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 8, 1944:

London—AP—
More than 4,500 Allied-warplanes,'spearheaded by great armadas of American heavy bombers, shook the Axis capitals of Berlin and Bucharest and other European
targets Sunday in perhaps the heaviest concentrated two-way pre-invasion assault of. the war.

Allied Headquarters, Naples —AP
U. S. heavy bombers blasted Bucharest by daylight Sunday in the steady, sledgehammer pounding of Romania, headquarters announced, as the battle tempo aground in Italy also quickened with a sharp but futile Nazi attack against the Anzio beachhead.
 
 
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Bucharest Hit
At Same Time
Berlin Blasted
London—AP—
More than 4,500 Allied-warplanes,'spearheaded by great armadas of American heavy bombers, shook the Axis capitals of Berlin and Bucharest and other European
targets Sunday in perhaps the heaviest concentrated two-way pre-invasion assault of. the war.
While a. fleet of 2,000 British-based Liberators and Flying Fortresses and their escorts were loosing thousands of bombs on Berlin and the Munster-Osnabruk area
of western Germany, other formations of American heavy bombers streamed out from Italy and bombed Bucharest in the third straight day of non-stop blows at
Romania's rail centers and oil supplies.
                                             Other Waves

U. S. Heavies
Hit Romania
In Daylight
Italian .Ground
Battle Resumed
In Beachhead Raid
By Noland Norgaard
Allied Headquarters, Naples —AP
U. S. heavy bombers blasted Bucharest by daylight Sunday in the steady, sledgehammer pounding of Romania, headquarters announced, as the battle tempo aground in Italy also quickened with a sharp but futile Nazi attack against the Anzio beachhead.
Liberators and Flying Fortresses struck the main rail yards in Bucharest, starting many fires and explosions, as the non-stop day and night hammering of Romanian communications and industries swung through the third day without a break.
                                 Followed Night Blow

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