Approaching the oil region, they decided to draw off the enemy's Jground fire in a wrong direction by a ruse, The Soviet, planes veered southward as if aiming for Bucharest and, their engines being picked up by the enemy, antleairoraft guns laponed up. 'The Soviet planes, however, had' already changed course again bringing them over the target, on which they unloaded their bombs. [Enemy searchlights began to play and. the Soviet planes had to manoeuvre sharply to avoid the ground fire, When they left the targe) area, immense fires were blazing. through: Out the region. The observers con-frm that the bombing was a dimeutt task but successful—Reuter-
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