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HEAVY DAYLIGHT RAID ON ITALIAN TOWN CHEMICAL WORKS DIRECTLY HIT. ATTACKS FROM LOW LEVEL. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY, September 3. The results of a heavy daylight raid by R.A.F. bombers on Cotrone, in Southern Italy, on Monday show how all the British aircraft found their objectives, stales the Air Ministry News Service. Our pilots saw huge sheets of multi-coloured flames rising from chemical works, which were hit several limes by heavy bombs. Clouds of blue and black smoke were rising into the air when the raiders turned for home. An enemy merchant vessel, of between 3.000 and 5,000 tons, was hit by at least two bombs and was left ablaze. Gunners of several of the raiding aircraft sprayed other shipping in the harbour. One pilot said: “My aircraft was one of the earliest on the scene and we could see clouds of dust, caused by the impact of bombs from other aircraft. As we came back, blue, sulphurous flames were rising from a shattered building. We made our attack from a low level and my rear-gunner saw all the bombs crash into buildings."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 September 1941, Page 6
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