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0 SHIPS IN ENEMY CONVOY BOMBED OFF FRISIAN ISLANDS. ATTACKS FROM VERY LOW LEVEL. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.28 a.m.) RUGBY. May 16. Details of the Bomber Command attack on Thursday on a convoy of, enemy supply ships off the North Frisian Islands leave no doubt of the success of the operation. Two ships respectively of 5,000 and 4,000 tons were left in flames and a third vessel of about 2,000 tons, sending up clouds of smoke. White and yellowish smoke came from the largest ship, followed by a sheet of flame. Flames were also licking out of the side of this ship, between deck and water level. The se-cond-largest ship was attacked at the same time. The first attacking bomber flew so low that it carried away the ship's wireless aerial. Bombs hit the ship, and by the time the attack was over the vessel was ■well ablaze. A great deal of smoke poured up from the smaller ship immediately after an attack from a low level.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1941, Page 6
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