ONE AIRCRAFT LOST
IN WIDELY EXTENDED OPERATIONS LONG LIST OF TARGETS ATTACKED. STRONG FORCES EMPLOYED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 25. An Air Ministry communique states: “Yesterday R.A.F. bombers carried out armed reconnaissances of the French, Belgian and Dutch coasts. The ports of Ostend and Gravelines, a factory and goods yards near Calais and a convoy off Zeebrugge were attacked. During the night aircraft .of the Bomber and Coastal Commands carried out widespread operations over Germany and enemy occupied territory. Objectives in the Beylin area were bombed. Oil plants at Hamburg, Hanover and Gelsenkirchen, docks and shipping at Hamburg, Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven. Wilhelmshaven, Rotterdam, Le Havre and L’Orient; rail communications and goods yards at Emmerich, Munster, Hamm, Bottrop and Duisberg, a power station at • Hamburg, the Channel ports of Flushing, Ostend and Dunkirk and several enemy aerodromes were attacked by strong forces of aircraft, operating throughout the hours of darkness. One aircraft has not reported to its base.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1940, Page 7
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