ATTACKS AT DAWN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 April 1941, Page 6

ATTACKS AT DAWN

MADE BY ROYAL AIR FORCE ON OBJECTIVES IN HOLLAND. INDUSTRIAL PLANTS & SHIPS. LONDON. April 25. The R.A.F. bombed in daylight enemy objectives in the Netherlands. The first attack was made soon after dawn. An attack was made from a low level on an enemy supply ship in a canal. Two bombs were dropped. Smaller enemy vessels were also attacked by bombs and machine-guns. In the second attack iron and steel works in occupied Holland were attacked. Hits wore obtained on a blast furnace and a large storage tank. DIRECT HIT WITH EXTREMELY HEAVY BOMB. ON NAZI BATTLE-CRUISER. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 24. The latest list of R.A.F. awards reveals that one of the German battle-cruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, sheltering at ißrest, has suffered a direct hit this month and with an extremely heavy bomb. The airman who achieved this and who wins the D.F.C., is 20-year-old Pilot (Officer G. R. Ross, of the R.A.F.V.R. His rear gunner, a New Zealander, Sergeant K. I. Street, gains the D.F.M. The citation states that they descended in face of intense concentrated antiaircraft fire and searchlights. Pilot Officer Ross secured a direct hit on one of the ships, with an extremely heavy bomb. Sergt. Street coolly directed machine-gun fire, extinguishing many searchlights and greatly assisting Pilot Officer Ross during the hazardous attack. Both on all occasions displayed great keenness, courage and determination.