GREAT FIRES RAGE
HUNDREDS OF TONS OF BOMBS DROPPED SMOKE COVERS HALF OF KIEL. ATTACKS ON DENMARK & LOW COUNTRIES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY. April 8. An Air Ministry communique states: "The Bomber Command last night made a heavy and successful attack, in perfect weather, on Kiel. Great fires raged in the town, whilst hundreds of tons of very powerful bombs caused destruction in submarine and Baltic yards and in docks. The raid lasted nearly five hours and later aircraft. reported smoke covering the whole northern half of Kiel Bay. "Attacks were also made, with good results, on Bremerhaven and Emden. "Four of our planes are. missing. ‘'During daylight yesterday, the Bomber Command bombed objectives in Denmark and the Low Countries.
"Shipping in the North Sea and in Cherbourg Roads was also attacked by both the Coastal and Bomber Commands. while the Fighter Command machine-gunned aerodromes and lorries in Northern France, inflicting casualties on the enemy. One aircraft of the Bomber Command is missing.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1941, Page 6
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