AIR FORCE ACTIVITIES
ENEMY ASSAILED FROM LOW ALTITUDES TROOPS THROWN INTO CONFUSION. OIL & RAILWAY DEPOTS SET ON FIRE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 1.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. During daylight raids over the Bresle-Somme region, the R.A.F. scattered transport columns, bombed lines of tanks, armoured cars and motor lorries, machine-gunned troops, silenced anti-aircraft batteries and blew up a petrol dump. They also caused chaos at many points behind the enemy lines. Some planes came down to 150 feet and raked their objectives with machineguns, causing great confusion. On one occasion the mere appearance of the raiders threw the enemy into confusion. A detachment of cavalry stampeded on the approach of the British planes. R.A.F. machines also set fire to an oil storage plant at Valenciennes and spread fires in marshalling yards near Essen, Duren and Euskirchen, blocked the mouth of a tunnel at Vise and demolished a railway bridge.
GERMAN AIR PRISONER
DEATH IN ENGLAND. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, June 9. The German airman who struggled with his captors when taken prisoner, after crashing in Suffolk yesterday, has died.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1940, Page 6
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