RUHR AGAIN BOMBED
R.A.F. Loses Five Planes LONDON, August 6. The R.A.F. last night again attacked industrial objectives in the Ruhr. Five bombers are missing. Home-based squadrons of the R.A.F. Bomber Command in July carried a load of bombs, nearly equal in weight to the previous highest total for any month. Daylight attacks on Germany and occupied Hurope exceeded night attacks. On two nights alone —Duisburg on July 25, and Hamburg on July 26, about 1260 tons of bombs were dropped. Such an attack was never achieved by the Germans even at the height of their assault on Britain. The Bomber Command lost 184 machines in July, and destroyed nine enemy fighters. The Fighter Command lost 62 and destroyed 32 German fighters ami ten bombers.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19420807.2.33
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 265, 7 August 1942, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
125RUHR AGAIN BOMBED Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 265, 7 August 1942, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in