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VISITED BY BRITISH BOMBERS IN MANY ENEMY AREAS. PLANE FACTORIES AND OTHER OBJECTIVES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) RUGBY, July 23. An Air Ministry communique states: "An aircraft factory at Bremen, an aircraft park in Paderborn and military objectives in the Ruhr, including the synthetic oil plant at Gelsenkirchen. were among the targets attacked by aircraft of the Bomber Command last night. “Other forces of our aircraft bombed aerodromes in Northern France, Holland and Germany. Two of our aircraft are missing.
“Docks and petrol stores in Amsterdam. barge concentrations south-west of Holder, a dock basin west of Jmuiden and shipping in Dunkirk Harbour were attacked by aircraft of the Coastal Command during the night. All these aircraft returned safely.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1940, Page 6
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