SMASHING ATTACKS
ON ENEMY FACTORIES & PORTS DEVASTATION AT BREST. SERIES OF HEAVY EXPLOSIONS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.5 p.m.) RUGBY, October 6. An Air Ministry communique states: “Last night our bombers attacked the oil plant at Gelsenkirchen, Krupps’ Works at Essen, goods yards at Hamm, Osnabruck and Cologne and shipping at Rotterdam. “Aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked shipping and warehouses at Brest and barge and motor transport concentrations at Gravelines. Routine mine-laying operations were carried out. Three of our planes are missing.” R.A.F. raiders last night arrived at Brest just as night was falling. Despite a haze they were able to see the outlines of the docks. Their salvos of heavy bombs smashed quays and damaged a dry dock. One of the pilots reported that his bombs, which struck a road by the side of one of the quays, caused a series of heavy explosions, as if ammunition sheds had been hit. Another squadron left a crescent of fires at Gravelines, after a visit in which they interspersed heavy bombs with large quantities of incendiary bombs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 October 1940, Page 6
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