HEAVY ATTACKS
BY BRITISH AIRCRAFT
ON MILITARY OBJECTIVES IN GERMANY.
AND IN ENEMY-OCCUPIED TERRITORY.
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received This Day, 11.52 a.m.) ’* RUGBY, August 11.
An Ail’ Ministry communique states that R.A.F. bombers yesterday made daylight attacks on a number of en-emy-occupied aerodromes in Holland and France. Hits were observed among hangars at Schipol, Querqueville and Waalhaven. Aerodromes at Flushing, Dinard and Caen were attacked and the airport in Guernsey was also bombed. Two of our aircraft are missing. Heavy attacks on military objectives in Germany were continued last night. These included docks at Hamburg. the naval base at Wilhelmshaven, oil supplies at Frankfurt and Homburg. a power station and explosive factories at Cologne, chemical works at Frankfurt and blast furnaces north
of that city, wharves at Duisberg. supply depots at Soest and several aerodromes in Holland and Belgium. One of our aircraft is missing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 6
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