FIERCE ONSLAUGHT
MADE BY BRITISH BOMBERS ON BRINDISI DAMAGE TO FUEL TANKS AND RAILWAY. FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, November 30. During Thursday night and the early hours of yesterday morning attacks were made by British aircraft on Brindisi, where more than 26,C001b of high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped on military objectives. A stick of bombs burst in a line from the quays to the fuel tanks in the south-east of the town, causing ’ one fie f ce Are, several smaller fires and \ a number of explosions. bombs fell near the fuel tanks „ . e arse nal on the coast, southeast of the harbour. ne stick straddled the main rail-
way station in the south-west of the town, and two more fires were started at the southern end of the quays. Despite considerable anti-aircraft fire, the attack was pressed home without loss or damage to the British aircraft.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1940, Page 5
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