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1944
1944 - 1731.PDF
AUGUST 24TH, 1944 Specially selected members of Marshal Tito's Yugoslav Forces are being trained by the R.A.F. in Italy. Qerman Armies Blinded •* No Air Opposition in Provence : US* Armour Unharassed in the North THE Coastal Air Force of the M.A.A.F. did a fine bit of work in preventing the German recon naissance aircraft from gaining detailed information about the preparations for the Allied landing in the south of France. It takes some doing to con ceal the assembly of 800 ships in ports scattered about Italy, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, and Northern Africa. The Germans made some half-hearted attempts to get information, but of the reconnaissance aircraft which they sent out the Coastal Air Force destroyed some and drove off the others before they could obtain any valuable information. The Germans, in fact, seem to have been very half-hearted in all their attempts to meet this invasion. Whether their snooping aircraft could BOMBER-FIGHTER ? : Spitfire IX's now can carry one 500 lb. and two ^* 250 lb. bombs when employed on low- level attacks. The wing armament has also been altered to include one 2*0 mm. cannon and one x>*5in. machine gun in each wing. see the congregation of Allied ships or tions along the Cdte d'Azure. Yet not, they must have gathered that their opposition on the ground was something was in the wind from the^-^fe'eble in the extreme, and jffnh^m.it^ preliminary bombing of communic3< it was.-jitffPexlJteiit. V**" Wt. • IT" *"i -
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