FLEET AIR ARM
BIG ENEMY PETROL DEPOT WRECKED AT BERGEN.
Machines of the Fleet Air Arm wrecked a petrol depot five miles south of Bergen, in Norway, Daventry reports. The capacity of the depot was 7000 tons.
An Admiralty communique transmitted by the Press Association states that aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm attacked the petrol storage depot at Dolvig, five miles south of Bergen. There were three oil tanks with a total capacity of 7000 tons at this depot. The largest was blown up. The second was hit and set on fire and the third was damaged. Very large fires were soon raging and it is believed that they must have caused the total destruction of the depot.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1940, Page 5
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