TELLING BLOWS
STRUCK AT ENEMY SHIPPING BY COASTAL COMMAND AIRCRAFT. SUPPLY VESSELS BOMBED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, November 27. “A\Coastal Command Hudson was rocked at 1,500 feet by heavy blasts when it bombed an enemy supply ship of 3,000 to 5,000 tons off the Frisian Islands yesterday. Two hits are believed to have been made,” states an Air Ministry communique, “and debris was seen to rise after the bomb bursts. In daylight, Blenheims harried small units of merchant vessels near the enemy coastline and, through a gap in a cloud, J struck at a hangar and eight German aircraft on the tarmac of the aerodrome at Dunkirk. Today another German supply ship was torpedoed near the Frisian Islands by Coastal Command Beaufort aircraft which were on a roving mission. The vessel, which was of 5.000 tons, listed quickly to starboard and its stern came out of the water, with the screw threshing the air.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1940, Page 5
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