The important railway yard was the focus of attack at Frankfurt. which is one of the chief commercial centres of Germany and lies at a strategic point on the great trade routes between the north and the south. The crew of one aircraft said that they saw bombs burst along the railway yard and then saw an explosion which destroyed a large building. Many fires in the yard were reported as well.
Elsewhere in the town, especially in the neighbourhood of the main railway station, there were large and well-established fires burning among clouds of smoke.—Reuter,
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