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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1940, Page 5

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R.A.F. Bombs Concealed Military Objectives

MANY TARGETS ATTACKED IN BERLIN AND ELSEWHERE

FORTY-FIVE ENEMY AIRCRAFT SHOT DOWN

OVER BRITAIN

An Air Ministry communique transmitted by Daventry states that on Tuesday night the R.A.F. bombed military objectives concealed in German forests. Many fires were started, which later caused explosions. Other air reconnaissances were made over the Black Forest, where fires started by bombers the previous nig'ht were still raging. ( Other forces of the R.A.F. attacked electric power and lighting installations, an aircraft factory in Berlin, oil storage tanks, goods yards, a blast furnace and several Dutch and German aerodromes. The Fleet Air Arm, in co-operation with Coastal Command aircraft, bombed large concentrations in canals. A force of Coastal Command aircraft also attacked the docks at Ostend. All the British machines returned.

Forty-,five enemy aircraft, including 33 bombers or bomberfighters, were destroyed by British fighters yesterday during raids on Britain. Eleven British machines were lost, but the pilots of five are safe. London had three raid warnings yesterday—in the morning, at lunch time and in the afternoon. Yesterday afternoon about fifty bombs were dropped on a south-east town. German planes which attempted to reach the Thames Estuary were driven off by fighters. Bombs were dropped in a haphazard way in some places.