BREST SINGLED OUT
BLINDING EXPLOSION
FOLLOWED BY HUGE FIRE.
SMOKE RISES ABOVE 9.000 FEET.
(British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, February 5. One of the most persistent of last night’s Bomber Command raids was on the naval base of Brest, between 8 and 10 o'clock. The weather over Brest was favourable, and tho whole plan of the docks and the outline of the jetties were clearly visible from the air.
At the height of this attack a fire was seen to break out on the docks an<| was vividly described by one of the many pilots who reported it. The fire appeared to be the result of burning oil. "As we were vertically over the dock," a pilot said "there was an explosion that almost blinded us. At first I thought a flare had gone oil inside the aircraft, then I thought we had been hit and that the aircraft was on fire, but, looking down, we saw an area about 150 yards long on fire, with flames shooting up to 200 feet. The fire was just beside the. water’s edge. We cruised around and watched it grow. Black smoke was pouring up and rose higher than our aircraft, about 9,000 feet."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1941, Page 5
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