AIR WARFARE
ROYAL AIR FORCE ACTIVE OVER ENEMY AREAS DAMAGE DONE ON LAND & SEA. HEINKEL BROUGHT DOWN. R.A.F. bombers and aircraft of the Coastal Command on Thursday carried out operations over the North Sea. the English Channel and the Scandinavian and Dutch coasts, Daventry reports. They did some damage to enemy shipping, brought down a Heinkel and attacked seaplane bases. Five did not return. The R.A.F., in an attack on Hamburg, set fire to two oil tanks. Two bombers are missing and two fighters have failed to return from a patrol over France. On Thursday night bombers attacked aerodromes, aircraft factories, lock gates, barges, inland docks, marshalling yards and munition factories in Holland and North Germany. All the machines returned safely. Aircraft of the Coastal Command blew upan ammunition store in Holland.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1940, Page 5
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