Roosevelt’s route is kept secret
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Landing in China next, Japs say
By the United Press
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Russian labor leader once worked in Pittsburgh
CIO delegates in London find new tie to Soviet Union – his status of pay, hours far different
By Fred W. Perkins, Pittsburgh Press staff writer
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U.S. fliers blast path for Red drive
LONDON, England (UP) – U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators, more than 1,100 strong, smashed today at targets only a dozen miles ahead of the advancing Red Army. The raid brought to more than 11,250 the number of planes that have blasted the Reich in 36 hours.
The heavy bombers had an escort of more than 450 Mustang fighters, bringing the total air force hurled at Germany today to 1,530 planes.
Their targets chiefly were Dresden and Cottbus. Cottbus lies only 12 miles west of the Red Army spearheads at Forst and the attack was the closest direct support operation yet carried out by the U.S. Air Force for the Red Army.
Hit oil plant
The heavy bombers also struck at the synthetic oil plant near Magdeburg.
Dresden has been under almost continuous assault by British and American air forces for two days and nights. This vital German rail and supply center, which is only about 45 miles distant from the most advanced Red Army columns, has had one of the heaviest plasterings of the war.
Cottbus, 53 miles southeast of Berlin, is a target of almost equal importance. It is a big rail junction point from which highways radiate in all directions.
The American assault followed a double blow by 1,300 RAF four-engined bombers at Chemnitz, 38 miles southwest of Dresen, and smaller-scaled raids on Berlin and other targets during the night.
The RAF also heavily attacked a synthetic oil plant at Rositz, south of Leipzig, and made smaller-scale raids on Berlin, Duisburg, Mainz, Nuremberg and Dessau. Night fighters and intruders supported the bombers with attacks on airfields in which four enemy planes were destroyed.
Twenty-two RAF planes were missing from the night operations, but some may have landed at Allied bases on the continent.
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French profit from ‘dictator’
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