Show French Invasion Coast Bombing Enters Fo Fourth rth Straight Day LONDON Jan 26 UP Waves of allied bombers resumed the he daylight bombardment of the French Trench Invasion coast in great strength Wednesday following up upa a series of ot small scale night attacks attacks attacks at at- tacks by the R RAF A F on northern France Trance France and western Germany Carrying one of the gre greatest tet i up softening bombing campaigns In n history into it its fourth straight day squadrons of ot American and British medium bombers crossed the he Dover straits at daybreak to heap leap tons of ot explosives on the chain of German defenses de- de lenses strung along the Pas de dc deCalais Calais coast Swarms of allied fighters shuttled shuttled shut- shut fed continuously ov over r the target area covering the bombing formations formations formations forma forma- against enemy fighter inter inter- The day shift picked up the attack after the R A F's fast Mosquito Mosquito Mosquito Mos Mos- quito bombers stabbed at targets In n the western reich and other allied night raiders hit enemy objectives ob- ob In northern France Not Nota a single plane was lost in the night offensive It was the thirteenth daylight blow low at the heavily fortified French coast since the beginning of the year and the sixteenth since December 21 when the allied command command com com- mand launched an out all-out bombing I Imand campaign to blast a path into western Europe for its invading armies Coastal observers reported that at the height of ot Tuesdays Tuesday's daylight daylight daylight day day- light attack the sky over northern France was black with allied pl planes c that returned again and again to dump their bomb loads on German gun emplacements inthe in inthe inthe the Pas de dc Calais area The thunderous offensive was believed to have created concern among the German high command Airmen believed the nazis had been forced to maintain a large defensive force on the alert along the channel coast in addition to thousands of laborers n needed eded to keep the west wall wan defenses in iu inconstant inconstant constant repair Heads Meads Air Base TOPEKA Kan Jan JaD 26 UP Lieutenant Colonel Sig R. R Young of Tucson Ariz became commandant commandant commandant comman comman- dant Wednesday of ot the he Topeka army air base succeeding Colonel Ivan Palmer |