LOW-LEVEL ATTACK
BY BLENHEIM BOMBERS HAVOC WROUGHT IN BREMEN AREA. AIR MINISTRY COMMUNIQUE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m.) RUGBY, July 4. An Air Ministry communique states: “Bremen was again attacked at daylight this morning by Bomber Command Blenheims. A large factory and the dock area were bombed from a low level, some of our aircraft coming down to fifty feet. Direct hits were obtained, followed by fires and explosions. A goods yard and railway junction north-west of the city were also attacked. A goods train and aircraft on an aerodrome were machine-gunned. “Other Blenheims bombed the island of Norderney, where barracks and gun positions were raked with machine-gun fire. “From those operations, five of our aircraft are missing.” It is known that a twelfth enemy fighter was destroyed during yesterday’s operations in Northern France.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 July 1941, Page 6
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