IMMENSITY OF RAIDS
MADE PLAIN IN DETAILED REPORTS BUILDINGS RENT AND SMASHED GREAT FIRES IN SUBMARINE YARDS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY. May 9. The intensity of the raids on Bremen and Hamburg last night can be gauged from a fuller description by the Air Ministry. A record number of aircraft attacked, and incendiary bombs, in tens of thousands, and high explosive bombs, in hundreds of tons, covered the cities with fires and smoke. Buildings were rent and smashed, Germany’s submarine and shipbuilding yards were remorselessly bombarded, and left with fires blazing in their midst.
Pilots’ reports speak of: “Areas were a mass of flame, in which it was impossible to distinguish separate fires." of terrific explosions, of smoke rising 10,000 feet, and of: 'Our most powerful bombs dropped into the heart of raging fires."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 May 1941, Page 5
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