DAWN SURPRISE
EARLY MORNING ATTACK ON BOULOGNE MADE-BY BRITISH BOMBERS. 1 AERODROME AND AIRCRAFT s DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) RUGBY. July 11. Five enemy aircraft are believed tc t have been destroyed and others severe' j ly damaged, in a dawn raid on the Boulogne Aerodrome this morning bj s medium R.A.F. bombers. Sleet anc 3 rain enabled the raiders to dive, droj their bombs and get clear before Hit . anti-aircraft defences could open fire s A number of hits with high explo sives along one side of the aerodrome were made. In a second attack, ter minutes later, a concentration of some twenty enemy aircraft was bombed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1940, Page 6
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113DAWN SURPRISE Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 July 1940, Page 6
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