HEAVY RAID ON KIEL
German Defences Battered LONDON, October 14. Last night’s raid on Kiel was the heaviest yet, says the Air Ministry. For hours the defences were battered until searchlights were wavering in every direction and the gunfire became ineffective. The smoke screen which is regularly put up whenever our bombers approach Kiel provided little protection, and the crews found Kiel, in the words of one pilot, “lighted up like daylight” by the huge fires and a multitude of flares. The fires were so bright that only the bursts of the biggest bombs could be distinguished among them. Coastal Command Beaufighters on Tuesday destroyed two Junkers 88’s and a flying-boat over the Bay of Biscay without loss. The Army Co-operation Command during Tuesday attacked a goods train and other targets in Northern France, also without loss.
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Southland Times, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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137HEAVY RAID ON KIEL Southland Times, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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