R.A.F. RECORD

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 July 1940, Page 5

R.A.F. RECORD

DETAILS OF ATTACKS ON GERMANY AND ON OCCUPIED TERRITORY. DURING LAST THREE MONTHS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.53 a.m.) RUGBY, July 26. Of the total of over a thousand largescale raids made by the R.A.F. on Germany and German-occupied countries within the past three months, 161 raids were made on industrial targets, 229 on aerodromes, 258 on military objectives and 275 on communications. Between May 10, when intensified raids began with the invasion of Holland and Belgium, and June 17, when Paris was reached by the Germans, no fewer than 416 big-scale operations were carried out over Germany and occupied countries, while since that time 517 raids have been directed in a month at the enemy’s main military and industrial centres. The British have made 377 bombing raids on targets in Germany itself, between June 1 and July 18. The crews of many German aircraft shot down over and around Britain escape by parachute. In some cases they are detained by civilians and handed over to the police or military authorities. Several have been saved from the sea as the result of the good offices of their very opponents who shot them down and who gave directions for rescue efforts. On the most recent list of 109 German prisoners, 55 were air force men, 45 army and 9 naval.