INVASION BASES
RAIDED BY R.A.F. IN BAD WEATHER SIGNS OF HEAVY DAMAGE. LIMITED ACTIVITY OVER BRITAIN The R.A.F. has made more smashing attacks on the German invasion bases, the 8.8. C. states. Although the weather was bad, the planes dived through the clouds and many tons of bombs were dropped on barges in the invasion bases and harbour installations. At Dieppe fires after blazing fiercely, suddenly went out, in a manner suggesting that barges had burnt down to the water line and sunk. At Boulogne. Dunkirk and Calais, docks, warehouses and barges were singled out for attack. One British plane is missing. A single German bomber which swooped down on a convoy was sent crashing into the sea by a direct hit by gunfire from one of the escorting vessels. A second raider is believed to have been destroyed after it had ma-chine-gunned an East Anglia town and dropped a number of bombs. When the plane made off dense smoke was pouring from it and flames were seen near the engine. Another German plane machine-gunned a town, but; apart from these attacks enemy air ac-1 tivily was slight.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 February 1941, Page 5
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