AIR OFFENSIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 October 1941, Page 5

AIR OFFENSIVE

BRITISH AIRCRAFT ACTIVE ATTACKS ON SHIPS SIX ENEMY FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN. THREE OE OUR PLANES MISSING. LONDON, October 2. British bombers and fighters have, again been active today. A strong force of fighters, in offensive operations over the Channel and Northern France, shot down six enemy fighters. Three British planes are missing. This afternoon Beaufort aircraft bombed two enemy, vesesls off the coast of Norway. Earlier in the day, a fighter patrol off Dunkirk set an enemy barge on fire. NIGHT RAIDS ON GERMAN INDUSTRIAL CENTRES. IN SPITE OF UNFAVOURABLE WEATHER. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) RUGBY, October 2. An Air Ministry communique states: “Operations by aircraft of the Bomber Command were restricted last night by unfavourable weather, but a. small foi’ce bombed objectives at Stuttgart and elsewhere in South-Western and Western Germany. Bombs were also dropped on docks at Calais, Boulogne and Ostend. One enemy night-fighter was destroyed and another damaged. “Aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked enemy shipping off the Frisian Islands during the night. A merchant vessel was hit and set on fire. From these operations one aircraft of the Bomber Command is missing.”