Another RAP, pilot who became separated from his squadron over the Somme River north of Rouen said, thought I was fying with the ettler boys until T suddenly received a shock. I was flying in a formation of Messerschmitts! T'did the natural thing—Just started in on them, They seemed to have been taken by sur~ prise. At any rate, I got one of them and "managed to' get out of the Scramble all right:
All but one bridge along a sixty mile stretch of the Seine River have been destroyed by Allied bombers, according to one British pilot wh returned from strafing German troops. "The east end of the one bridge which has not been destroyed is just dangling over the river," he said, British pilots reported that several towns in the Seine River valley were in flames. All day yesterday and throughout the night the RAP. has been relentlessly bombing the German advance lines and German ce munication lines. Planes have been faking: off almost continuously with their loads of bombs and most pilots made many flights during the day-United Press,
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