NIGHT BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1941, Page 5

NIGHT BOMBING

* OF ENEMY=OCCUPIED PORTS & AERODROMES SUCCESSFUL BRITISH OPERATIONS. ACCURATE AIMING FROM LOW ALTITUDE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, October 4. An Air Ministry communique states that aircraft of the Bomber Command last night attacked the docks at Dunkirk, Rotterdam and Antwerp. Bombs were also dropped on the docks at Brest. Operations by Coastal Command aircraft included a night attack on enemy aerodromes at Aalborg. At dusk our fighters on offensive patrol attacked with cannon and machine-gun fire an enemy aerodrome in northern France. One aircraft of the Coastal Command is missing. It is officially stated that pilots of Coastal Command Hudsons, making their first raid over enemy territory, last night bombed from only a few hundred feet to be sure of hitting their targets, which were aerodromes and docks in Aalborg, in northern Denmark. the crews are members of a Yorkshire auxiliary squadron. Some of them who trained under the Empire scheme arrived recently from Canada. The Hudsons cruised for nearly half an hour over the aerodromes before releasing their bombs, which fell on runways and buildings. “It was a perfect set up.” said one Canadian pilot describing the bombing conditions. Diving over the docks at Aalborg, which was clearly outlined in brilliant moonlight, another Hudson unloaded a stick of bombs which fell near a large gasworks. Aftei' the bomb flashes a fierce red glow spread rapidly among the surrounding buildings.