FIRES IN STETTIN
STARTED BY BRITISH BOMBERS ANOTHER POWERFUL ATTACK ON HAMBURG. RAIDS BY FIGHTER COMMAND. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.10 a.m.) RUGBY, September 30. An Air Ministry communique states: “Stettin, Germany’s important sea base on the Baltic, was attacked last night by a powerful force of the Bomber Command. Large fires were left burning. “Another strong force bombed the dock area at' Hamburg and subsidiary attacks were made on docks at Cherbourg and Havre. Eight of our bombers are missing. “One of our aircraft shot down an enemy twin-engined fighter and drove off another in a damaged condition. “The Fighter Command carried out offensive patrols over enemy aerodromes, from which two of our fighters are missing.
"In a dusk attack at Lannion, dispersal points and gun positions were raked with cannon and machine-gun fire and an enemy bomber was set on fire.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1941, Page 5
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