OIL TARGETS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1940, Page 5

OIL TARGETS

SINGLED OUT BV R.A.F. MUCH DAMAGE DONE IN GERMANY. CHANNEL PORTS ALSO BOMBED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, October 11. R.A.F. attacks last night upon military targets in enemy-occupied territory were described in an Air Ministry communique issued this afternoon, which states: “Strong forces of R.A.F. bombers singled out oil targets in Germany for a main attack last night. At Hamburg storage tanks were blown up. Fires were started at Hanover, Reisholz, Gelsenkirchen, Cologne, Magdeburg and Leuna. "In face of intense anti-aircraft fire and searchlight activity, warships were attacked at Wilhelmshaven and sticks of bombs fell across the harbour. At Kiel, Krupps’ shipyards were heavily bombed and. fires were started in the docks. “Shipping at Calais, Boulogne, Le Havre and Brest were attacked in force and at Cherbourg coastal batteries were bombed. “Other aircraft attacked shipping in the harbours at Flushing and Amsterdam, as well as docks at Den Helder. The Fokker works at Amsterdam, factories at Bottrop and a blast furnace at Oberhausen were bombed. “Attacks also were made on railways at Soest, Hamm and Gelsenkirchen, on aerodromes at De Kooy, Kloppenberg, south-west of Bremen, and Osthein, in Bavaria, and on a seaplane base at Norderney. “All our bombers returned safely from thees operations, in the course of which two enemy aircraft were shot down.”