SUNK OR DAMAGED
MANY ENEMY TANKERS OPERATIONS OF BRITISH BOMBERS. ATTACKS PRESSED HOME UNDER HEAVY FIRE. ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 30. The Bomber Command, waging an unheralded offensive in the battle of the North Sea and Atlantic, in daylight operations between April 17-23, sank or damaged 42,000 tons of German shipping off the coasts of Germany, Holland. France and Norway. Aircraft of the Bomber Command on the morning of March 31 sighted two 3000-ton tankers west of Le Havre, presumably going to refuel submarines in the Atlantic, withanti-aircraft ships ahead and astern. Ignoring the guns, the bombers dived to within 200 feet and made a direct hit on the first oil tanker, from which came clouds of steam and smoke, and three bombs directly hit the second tanker. The planes again attacked and swept the decks with machine-gun. fire, leaving the tankers enveloped in billowing smoke.
Other aircraft did not hesitate to attack even heavily armed ships protected by destroyers and anti-aircraft ships and escorted by fighters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 5
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168SUNK OR DAMAGED Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1941, Page 5
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