DAMAGING RAIDS
ON GERMAN DEPOTS AND SUPPLY SHIPS. (Received This Day. 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, July 28. The Air Ministry states that the R.A.F. yesterday and last night bombed the Nordsee Canal, in Holland, barges at Stavoren, oil depots at Hamburg and Amsterdam, docks and wharves at Wilhelmshaven and Bremen and eight enemy aerodromes in Holland and Germany. All our machines returned. We shot down an enemy fighter yesterday off Norway and bombed another supply ship, which was left sinking oil the Dutch coast. AMERICAN PLANE GOOD WORK AGAINST ENEMY SHIPS. (Received This Day, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. It is revealed that it was an Ameri-can-built Hudson aircraft of the Coastal Command that severely damaged two German supply ships last night and bombed others. NINE ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED ON SUNDAY. TWO BRITISH FIGHTERS LOST. (Received This Day. 1.0 p.m.) LONDON, July 29. It is officially stated that nine enemy planes were destroyed on Sunday. Two of our fighters were lost, but one pilot is safe, although wounded. Five German fighters were shot down in the afternoon. Our fighters later shot down two more planes over the Channel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 July 1940, Page 6
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