DAY & NIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 April 1942, Page 3

DAY & NIGHT

R.A.F. ATTACK ON GERMANY & OCCUPIED FRANCE WAR FACTORIES & AERODROMES BLITZED. SMALL FORCE BOMBS CHERBOURG LONDON, April 15. Bomb J carrying HUrriclanes today dropped bombs on a Germanoccupied aerodrome in France. There were numerous dog-fights above the target.

Bombers again heavily raided war factories and workshops in the Ruhr. This was the sixth night in just over a week on which Western Germany had been blitzed by the R.A.F. Our bombs caused many fires, some very large. Other R.A.F. planes attacked the docks at Le Havre and aerodromes in occupied territory. A small force of R.A.F. bombers attacked the docks at Cherbourg. Eleven of our planes are missing. LEFT SINKING GERMAN SUPPLY SHIP. ATTACKED IN NORWEGIAN FIORD. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, April 15. A medium-sized German supply ship was left sinking in a Norwegian -fiord north of Bergen, after a swift early morning attack today by a Hudson aircraft of the Coastal Command, says the Air Ministry News Servire. The pilot of the Hudson dived so low that he actually heard his bombs strike the vessel. Four found their target and exploded a few seconds later. The Hudson circled for nearly ten minutes and saw a large cloud of smoke or steam hanging over the ship. When the Hudson left, the ship had sunk very low in the water. A smaller ship made off at top speed further into the fiord. There was heavy antiaircraft fire from ships and the shore, but the R.A.F. aircraft was untouched.