RAID ON NAPLES
CITV WELL BLACKED OUT AND HEAVY FIRE OPENED BY GUNS. BUT ATTACKS DRIVEN HOME EFFECTIVELY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, November 4. Details of the second attack by aircraft of the Bomber Command on Naples show, according to the Air Ministry news service, that Italian antiaircraft guns provided more effective opposition last night than on the occasion of the first raid. The city was well blacked out and, as the British aircraft approached, they were met with a heavy and fairly accurate fire. Though the attack was hampered by cloud, the leading aircraft dropped flares and then came down low to plant a stick of bombs between the main railway station and a junction. Other aircraft attacked oil tanks at Poggio Reale, on the southern outskirts of the city, and bombed them effectively.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1940, Page 5
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