FORESTS & FACTORIES
BOMBED INTENSIVELY BY R.A.F. ATTACK ON GUN POSITIONS ON CHANNEL. DAMAGE DONE IN MANY AREAS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received Thic Day, 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, September G. R.A.F. attacks last night on a number of military objectives in Germany, which again included those concealed in the great German forests, are the subject of an Air Ministry communique which states that military objectives concealed in German forests and important enemy oil installations were again the principal targets attacked by the R.A.F. last night. Our bombers started fires in the Hartz Mountains and Black Forest, bombed a synthetic oil plant at Stettin, tanks at Kiel and refineries at Hamburg and at Regensburg. They also raided the Emden docks, goods yards at Hamm and Soest and a number of German Dutch aerodromes. Another force of our bombers again attacked the Fiat aero-engine works at Turin. The port of Boulogne was subjected to heavy bombing last night by aircraft of the Bomber Command, the Coastal Command and the Fleet Air Arm... Bomber Command aircraft also attacked gun positions at Cape Griz Nez and the harbour at Calais. Three of our aircraft have not returned.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1940, Page 5
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