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FIGHTER & BOMBER SWEEPS OVER FRANCE SUPERB BOMBING AT LE HAVRE. DIRECT HITS ON POWER STATION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.0 p.m.) RUGBY, April 16. More than 400 Spitfires, according to the Air Ministry news service, had taken part in offensive operations over Northern France by the end of Thursday afternoon. An Air Ministry communique summarises the day’s operations as follows:—“Our fighters made a series of large-scale sweeps over Northern France today. In one of these, a squadron of Bostons was escorted to Le Havre, when a power station, docks and shipping were bombed. In other sweeps, bomb-carrying Hurricanes attacked the docks at Dunkirk and an aerodrome on the Cherbourg Peninsula. Five enemy aircraft were destroyed during the day’s operations. Two of our fighters are missing.” A later Air Ministry news service bulletin added' that in a further sweep by several squadrons of Spitfires this evening, one Focke Wulfe 190 probably was destroyed over Northern France.
There was superb bombing by Bostons at Le Havre, when four direct hits were observed on a power station.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 April 1942, Page 4
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