ATTACKED BY ROYAL AIR FORCE
In Germany and Italy
IMPORTANT BASES AND FACTORIES FURTHER RAIDS ON BRITAIN REPELLED An Air Ministry communique transmitted by Daventry states that new targets in Germany and Italy have been attacked by the R.A.F. The objectives included an important railway junction, an electric power station, oil supplies, an explosive factory, a canal, a French port and gun emplacements. Two British planes were lost. Aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked supply ships and shot down a Dornier flying-boat. The oil tanks at Flushing and the harbour at Ostend were also bombed. One machine did not return.
Twenty-three German planes were destroyed in attacks on Britain yesterday. Fifteen British machines are missing but the pilots of eight are safe. London had two raid warnings. Large numbers of planes which dropped a few bombs in Kent and Essex did little damage in an early attack. A fierce battle developed in the afternoon, when the raiders were driven off after an hour’s fighting.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1940, Page 5
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