R.A.F. BOMBERS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 5

R.A.F. BOMBERS

BERLIN & OTHER TARGETS

OBJECTIVES CAREFULLY SELECTED. RESULTS NOTED AT LEISURE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, August 29. An Air Ministry communique states: “Last night bombers extensively raided military objectives in Germany, Holland and enemy-occupied France. "Several important targets in the Berlin area were heavily bombed. "Other aircraft attacked an airframe factory at Leipzig, the Junkers works at Dessau, oil plants at Reisholz, Dortmund and Nordenham, north of Bremen and several enemy aerodromes. "A large vessel, lying in a canal near Rathenow, 25 miles west of Berlin, sustained a direct hit and exploded.

"All our aircraft returned. Two made forced landings but the crews are safe. “A special attack on one objective, only four miles from the centre of the city, was selected by R.A.F. aircraft which dropped a large number of bombs on a series of carefully-chosen military objectives in Berlin last night. “A young pilot officer, describing the attack on a Berlin power station, said: ‘We 1 bombed it dead on midnight. Somebody had been there before us and when we arrived we found the target well on fire. We could see it when we were 25 minutes’ flying time away from the target. We came in more or less north to south and put a stick of bombs down just to the left of this big fire. Then four more fires started and they were burning with very bright white lights. Altogether we were cruising round over Berlin for about half an hour.’ ”