DEVASTATING RAIDS
MADE BY BRITISH BOMBERS OIL PLANTS AND FACTORIES. AS WELL AS INVASION BASES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.5 a.m.) t, RUGBY, September 30. The R.A.F. last night made widespread and devastating raids on military objectives in Germany, in which attacks on oil plants figured prominently. Other targets were the Fokker Aircraft Factory, near Amsterdam and Dutch aerodromes and possible invasion bases, such as Ostend, Flushing, Calais and Boulogne, as well as L’Orient. From all these operations, three of our planes failed to return. A series of raids on the oil refinery and storage plant at Magdeburg, 200 miles from Germany’s western frontier, continued for nearly three hours and the plant was straddled with high-explosives, leaving a trail of fires and explosions. Other raiders successfully attacked a big gas plant at Stuttgart and the Bosch works at Leipzig.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 6
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