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MAY 3RD, 1945 4<>5 Coastal Command Mosquitoes shooting dawn German torpedo aircraft which they met about 150 miles off the Scottish coast when the Mosquitoes were returning from an anti-shipping sortie in the Kattegat. Nine out of 18 were shot down. WAR. in the AlR Berchtesgaden Shattered : Spitfires Over Berlin : Burma Oilfields Recaptured : Qoring Retires THE bombing by Lancasters ofHitler's Berchtesgaden chalet,the S.S. barracks^ near by, and another dwelling of Hitler's on a mountain spur five miles away, is a sign that the need for strategic bomb- ing is nearing its close. Berchtes- gaden doubtless could have been bombed before, though it was not easy to find when Bomber Command's operations were limited to • work by night. Now the number of targets whose destruction would seriously im- pede the German war effort has been enormously reduced, and Bomber Command can afford to allow itself some little treats. It visited Hitler's houses on the morning of April 25th, and used 12,000-lb. bombs, fused for deep penetration, against the two houses of the Fiihrer. Smaller, but still quite substantial, bombs of 4,000 1b. and i,ooo.lb. were used against the S.S. barracks. Mustangs of Fighter Command and also of the U.S. 8th Air Force escorted the Lancasters, and the bombing was observed to have been accurate. The Germans have been proclaiming so loudly that Hitler himself is in Ber- lin that one feels inclined to remark " the lady does protest too much." No report that anybody has seen him there has come through at the moment NO ROOM FOR MISTAKES: The deck of escort carrier H.M.S. Smiter appears very small when seen from the cockpit of a Swordfish about to land. of writing. He has himself proclaimed that the two places which must be held at all costs are Berlin and Prague. The choice of the latter is a surpris but the result ' appear anywhere else thsiiuj/Berlin it must be in Prague—oral£ he will lose fac/ He ftWghft*Jp|fe preferred the '' re/oeubt'' jn/thk^avayianVnoun- C ractive now- that his two homes have been bombed. The Skoda armament works at Pil- sen in Czechoslovakia were one of the few production centres still worth a hearty effort to destroy, and Fortresses dealt with them on the same day as the attack on Berchtes- gaden. Before the T^0F Allied H.Q. took the unpjpeort'liifed step of broad-
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