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BIG ENEMY OIL FACTORY NEAR STETTIN HIGH SUCCESS RAID FIRES AND TREMENDOUS EXPLOSIONS. MANY OTHER OBJECTIVES ATTACKED. One of the most important synthetic oil plants in Germany, near Stettin, in the Baltic, was successfully attacked by the R.A.F. on Thursday night, a 8.8. C. broadcast states. This plant produces one million metric tons of motor fuel per year. The whole of the works were gutted as the result of a previous R.A.F. raid and the Germans were rebuilding. Thursday night’s attack was one of the most successful raids on Germany during the war. Fires were started which were followed by tremendous explosions. At least twelve big fires were counted by one pilot and another saw eight more. Naval shipbuilding yards at Stettin were also attacked, and elsewhere a factory building submarines, armament works, railway goods yards and the French Channel ports. Some of the raids were on Dusseldorfi’ and Mannheim. ■ln the whole of these widespread operations, two British planes were lost.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1940, Page 5
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164BOMBED AGAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1940, Page 5
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