DAYLIGHT OFFENSIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 July 1941, Page 5

DAYLIGHT OFFENSIVE

CONTINUED ON WESTERN FRONT Successful R.A.E Raids on Northern France WIDESPREAD NIGHT BOMBING ATTACKS FROM GERMANY TO MEDITERRANEAN 1 COAST LONDON, July 22. The R.A.F. today continued its daylight offensive on the Western front, when Spitfires and Hurricanes escorted bombers on a successful raid on shipyards and in a sweep of other areas in Northern France. A Polish squadron shot down four Messerschmitts and shot up personnel, planes, hangars, gun positions and anti-aircraft batteries at one aerodrome. British fighters met an empty sky. “It was just like a training flight,’’ one pilot said; “there was no opposition.’’ In the course of the day’s operations we lost three fighters. In the early merning Coastal Command aircraft raided objectives on the coast of Denmark and bombed a German military camp, a railway and a pier. During the night British bombers bombed objectives from Germany to the French Mediterranean coast. The main objectives were industrial targets and railway communications at Frankfurt and Mannheim. Great execution was caused among industrial buildings and communications. The docks at Cherbourg and Ostend were also attacked and fighter planes raided aerodromes in Northern Franco. One bomber is missing. The total number of enemy planes destroyed in R.A.F. daylight raids yesterday was nine. We lost six. fighters. Few enemy planes ventured over Britain today. There are no reports of any bombs having been dropped.