Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-09-24 | Page 4 | RAF Airmen Pour Bomb Torrent on Rhine Ports

Airmen Pour Bomb Torrent Torreni On Rhine Ports LONDON Sept 2 24 21 UP UP-A UP A Abiff big biff force torce of ot British four tour bom bombers rs sent ot a nonstop allied aerIal aerial aerial ial offensive into its lu a second ond day dar with a heavy buster block as assault last night on Ludwigs Ludwiga hafen haCen Germanys Germany's 8 second cond largest Inland port and a vital ital arms cen cen- ter I IAn An air ministry announced that 32 bombers were i lost loat in that raid and subsidiary attacks on the railroad junction of ot Aachen in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders bor I bor-I ders del and Darmstadt 20 miles south of Frankfurt Striking in the wake of American American AmerIcan Amer Amer- ican Flying Fortresses and other allied bombers that raided Nantes I naval base bue in France and more than a dozen other targets in I I western Europe Thursday the British night raiders dropped a torrent of explosives on the twin t I cities that span the Rhine southwest southwest southwest south south- west of ot Frankfurt Huge fires tires were left burning among factories turning out tanks guns ammunition and chemicals vital to the German war effort Ludwigshafen Mannheim is the site of ot 13 motor vehicle plants now converted to war use 10 chemical plants including several of ot the I I. I G G. G Farben combine and two railway freight yards A German Gennan broadcast broadcast broadcast broad broad- cast heard here acknowledged that the raid caused widespread destruction especially in the old part of the twin cities There were a number of ot civilian casualties casualties casual casual- ties Ues the broadcast said It added added added add add- ed that 30 bombers were shot down The raid was the of the I Iwar war on Mannheim-Ludwigshafen Mannheim I Ithe the last lut previous one being on the night of September 5 when I Ithe 1500 tons of bombs were dropped