AIR FORCE ATTACKS
ON ENEMY OIL PLANTS & BASES
DESTRUCTION OF GERMAN PLANES. BOMBING OVER WIDE AREAS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON. July 4. The Air Ministry stated that during R.A.F. raids bombers attacked oil plants, communications, aircraft factories and canals in Germany .and in German-occupied territories. One of our planes is missing. A group of hangars at a Brussels airport was set on fire and at least five Junkers bombers and other planes are believed to have been hit. The R.A.F. bombed the Hague aerodrome and saw high explosives and incendiary bombs bursting amid the planes and German crews as they raced to cover. Three German planes were burning fiercely as the raiders left. Dive-bombing attacks were also made on Aachen, Hamburg, Neumunster, Osnabruck, Lunen, St Omer, Merville and on the western extremity of the Zuider Zee. The R.A.F. has destroyed 40 German warplanes between June 23 and July 4.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1940, Page 6
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154AIR FORCE ATTACKS Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1940, Page 6
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