BRITISH ATTACKS
4 IN FRANCE AND LOW COUNTRIES MANY MILITARY OBJECTIVES BOMBED. FLOAT PLANE DESTROYED IN CHANNEL. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, July 11. An Air Ministry communique states: “Aircraft of the Coastal Command, while on patrol in the Channel, accounted for an enemy float plane. In the course of the day R.A.F. bombers attacked military objectives in France and the Low Countries. Aerodromes, concentrations of barges and other targets were bombed. One of our aircraft is missing. “Yesterday our bombers delivered : daylight attacks on the aerodromes of ■ St Omer and Amiens. Five of our air- • craft failed to return. In addition, an ■ aircraft of the Coastal Command was lost on patrol.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1940, Page 6
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