ATTACKS BY DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1941, Page 6

ATTACKS BY DAY

ON ENEMY SHIPPING EXPLOITS OF BRITISH BOMBERS. SEVERAL VESSELS SET ON FIRE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.33 a.m.) • RUGBY, June 8. An Air Ministry communique states: “In daylight yesterday, Bomber Command aircraft sighted and bombed more enemy shipping. “’A convoy of supply ships off the Dutch coast' was attacked during the morning and two ships were set on fire and probably destroyed. Other vessels in this convoy were damaged. Later in the day, bomb and machine-gun attacks were made on an escorted supply shin off the Norwegian coast and on other vessels in a convoy ofl the Dutch coast. A salvage ship lying beside a large submerged wreck off Terschelling and surrounded by anti-aircraft ships was bombed and set on fire. On their way back, two of our bombers were hotly engaged by enemy fighters, one of which, when last seen, was circling slowly and losing height, with black smoke pouring from it. -Aircraft of the Fighter Command yesterday carried out offensive patrols over the Straits of Dover and occupied territory. From these daylight operations, three of our bombers and one fighter are missing.”