MANY ATTACKS
IN BALTIC AREA & GERMANY AND IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY. ACHIEVEMENTS OF BRITISH BOMBERS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) RUGBY, September 5. An Air Ministry communique states; “Last night R.A.F. bombers penetrated enemy territory as far as Stettin, on the Baltic, where a successful attack on a synthetic oil plant was carried out. “Other forces of ..our bombers attacked military objectives concealed in the Hartz Mountains, the Gruenwald Forest and the Black Forest. Many fires and explosions followed these attacks. Our aircraft also bombed a power station and aircraft factory in Berlin.
“Other objectives last night included oil stocks at Magdeburg, a goods yard at Nuremburg, south of Bremen and several aerodromes in enemy-occupied France and Belgium. “Aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked oil tanks at Cherbourg and docks at Terneuzen.
“From these widespread operations, two of our aircraft have not returned and one crashed on landing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 5
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