AIRMEN BUSY
MANY R.A.F. SUCCESSES ENEMY RELENTLESSLY HARRIED. DESTRUCTION BEHIND ENEMY RIGHT WING. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. June 9. Details contained in Air Ministry bulletins indicate that the R.A.F. has been intensely active during yesterday and last night. Enemy transport columns were scattered and Hung into confusion, lines of tanks were heavily bombed, armoured cars and motor-lorries were reduced to twisted wreckage from direct hits, troops on the march were machine-gunned, anti-aircraft guns were attacked and silenced, and a petrol dump hidden in a wood was blown up when the British bombers ranged over the right wing of the German onslaught in the region of the Rivers Bresle and Somme, and a series of deep and shallow dive-bombing attacks spread destruction and chaos at many points behind the enemy line. Between nightfall till shortly before dawn today R.A.F. heavy _ bombers were almost continuously in action against military objectives in Germany and in the battle zone in northern France.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1940, Page 5
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