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R.A.F. RAID ON KIEL DEFENCES BATTERED HUGE FIRES STARTED (By Telegraph—-Press Assn— Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) (2 p.m.) RUGBY. Oct. 14. Last night’s raid on Kiel was the heaviest yet, says the Air Ministry. For an hour the defences were battered until searchlights were wavering in every direction and the gunfire became ineffective. A smoke-screen which is regularly put up whenever our bombers approach Kiel provided little protection. The crews found Kiel, in the words of a pilot, “lighted up like daylight” by huge fifes and a multitude of flares. The fires were so bright that only the bursts of the biggest bombs could be distinguished among them. -
An Air Ministry communique states that in the course oi' offensive patrols this afternoon Spitfires attacked a goods train and railway workshop and damaged two enemy minesweepers off the French coast. Coastal Command aircraft attacked two enemv E-boats off the Dutch coast. None of our aircraft are missing. . . ,
Two people were injured and slight damage was done when two enemy fighters attacked a -place in the southeast of England to-day.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20916, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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180HEAVIEST YET Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20916, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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