ATTACK ON BERLIN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 July 1941, Page 4

ATTACK ON BERLIN

BOMBS DROPPED IN LbNIKb OF CITY EY SMALL FORCE OF POWERFUL PLANES. EXTENDED RAIDS ON NORTHERN FRANCE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 26. An Air Ministry communique states that on Friday night the Royal Air Force offensive_was mainly concentrated on Hanover and Hamburg, where industries, docks and communications were heavily bombed. A small force of four-engined bombers attacked objectives in Berlin. Aircraft of the Fighter Command carried out further attacks on enemy aerodromes in northern France during the night. Nine of our bombers are missing.

The Air Ministry news service states that the four-engined bombers which raided Berlin carried a full load, including some of the heaviest and most powerful bombs in Britain’s armoury. There was no doubt about where they had fallen, as huge flashes were seen right in the centre of the city. The bombers circled round to find the exact position by light flares. “At first,” said one captain, “the anti-aircraft gunners seemed to be trying to fox us and gave no sign of their existence. But as soon as cur bombs began to fall all the guns fired. It was no longer any use for them to pretend that Berlin was not just below us. We had flown through storms and above clouds on the way cut, but there was no cloud over Germany. We passed through two vast belts of searchlights before we reached Berlin. They looked brighter than ever on so dark a night and so did the flashes of our bombs in the centre of the city.”

VERY SLIGHT

ENEMY AIR ACTIVITY OVER BRITAIN.

LONDON, July 27.

No German planes were reported over Britain today. Enemy air activity over this country last night was very slight.