Word: argentan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Again the Luftwaffe. U.S. medium bombers hit oil dumps in France near Chartres. Argentan and Cerences. The R.A.F.'s new Typhoons, firing rockets that hit with the wallop of a six-inch naval shell, blasted storage tanks southwest of Rouen. The biggest European air combat since D-day was stirred up late in the week when 1,100 U.S. heavy bombers and 750 fighter escorts flew over Central Germany and attacked a string of industrial targets, including eleven refineries and synthetic oil plants grouped around Leipzig...