HOSPITALS BOMBED
ON ENGLISH SOUTH COAST NURSES HELP FIREMEN. BRITISH DAYLIGHT RAIDS. Two hospitals were set on fire on Thursday night when German planes raided a town on the south ccast of England, the 8.8. C. reports. • Nurses helped firemen to extinguish the fires. Apart from this attack, enemy air operations over Britainwere slight, and they ceased near midnight. Only a few bombs were dropped in London. -■ No raids were made by British bpmbing planes on Thursday night, because the weather made accurate bombing impossible, but during the day attacks were made on an electrical works in Holland, and also on aerodromes at Rotterdam and another point. The Üboat base at Lorient was also ridded.
DAYLIGHT ATTACKS MADE BY BRITISH AIRCRAFT. OPERATIONS ON THURSDAY. (British Official Wireless.) .. (Received This Day, 9.12 a.m.) RUGBY, December 6. Aircraft of the Coastal Command are officially stated to have carried out a raid on an electro-chemical factory at Eindhoven yesterday. The Rotterdam airport and the Haamstede aerodrome were also attacked. Other Coastal Command aircraft bombed the submarine base at Lorient. Owing to bad weather last night bomber -operations were cancelled. Two of our aircraft are missing, from routine patrols.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 7
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