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COMMUNIQUE NO. 237
 01 December 1944 

ALLIED FORCES, CONTINUING TO CLEAR THE MAAS POCKET, HAVE OCCUPIED
 ENEMY STRONG POINTS IN THE TWO CASTLES NEAR WANSSUM AND BROEKHUIZEN.
 THE VILLAGE OF BROEKHUIZEN WAS CLEARED OF THE ENEMY.

RAILWAY TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS IN NORTHERN AND EASTERN HOLLAND
 WERE AGAIN UNDER ATTACK BY FIGHTER BOMBERS.  AT SUCHTELN [SÜCHTELN] [SUECHTELN] FACTORY BUILDINGS
 WERE HIT BY FIGHTER BOMBERS.

IN THE AREA OF LIMNICH OUR FORCES HAVE REACHED THE ROER RIVER
 NORTH OF KOSLAR.  WE ARE FIGHTING IN BEECK, LINDERN AND FLOSSDORF [FLOßDORF].
 FIGHTERS AND FIGHTER BOMBERS, CLOSELY SUPPORTING OUR GROUND FORCES IN
 THIS SECTOR, ATTACKED ENEMY TROOPS AND MORTAR POSITIONS, AND BOMBED AND
 STRAFED STRONG POINTS AT BAAL, RURICH, GLIMBACH, GEVENICH AND BOSLAR.

FARTHER SOUTH WE HAVE CLEARED LAMMERSDORF AFTER HARD FIGHTING
 AND HAVE ENTERED THE SECTION OF INDEN WEST OF THE INDE RIVER.  HIGH
 GROUND EAST OF GROSSHAU [GROßHAU] WAS OCCUPIED.  IN MERODE HEAVY FIGHTING CONTINUED.

MEDIUM, LIGHT AND FIGHTER BOMBERS DESTROYED A NUMBER OF ENEMY TANKS
 AT PIER AND INDEN, ATTACKED THE FORTIFIED VILLAGES OF STOCKHEIM,
 VETTWEISS AND ERP, BOMBED AND STRAFED STRONG POINTS AND GUN POSITIONS AT
 BRANDENBERG, BERGSTEIN AND BERG, AND BOMBED AN ARMOURED [ARMORED] VEHICLE REPAIR
 DEPOT AT GEMUND [GEMÜND] [GEMUEND].

OTHER MEDIUM AND LIGHT BOMBERS WENT FOR RAILWAY YARDS AT ZWEIBRUCKEN [ZWEIBRÜCKEN] [ZWEIBRUECKEN].
 ESCORTED LIGHT BOMBERS ATTACKED A BENZOL PLANT AT DUISBURG DURING THE
 AFTERNOON AND TWO OTHER BENZOL PLANTS AT OBERHAUSEN AND BOTTROP WERE THE
 TARGETS FOR ESCORTED HEAVY BOMBERS WHICH MADE CONCENTRATED ATTACKS
 THROUGH CLOUD.  LAST NIGHT HEAVY BOMBERS WERE OVER GEMANY IN STRENGTH
 WITH DUISBURG AS THE MAIN OBJECTIVE.

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D.R. JORDAN Lt Col FA 2409

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