RAID DIARY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1942, Page 4

RAID DIARY

R.A.F. NIGHT OPERATIONS IN APRIL THOUSANDS OF TONS OF BOMBS. SHOWERED ON GERMANY AND OCCUPIED AREAS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, May 3. The R.A.F. bomb diary for April affords for the fitst time dii indication of the heavy scale of the night offensive against Germany, Occupied France and Norway. April alone brought thousands of tons of bombs on Germany. Munition works, war industries and communications in North-west Germany, the Ruhr and the Rhineland were subjected to attacks on thirteen nights. Of these attacks, two had Cologne as a target, two Hamburg and one Kiel. In Occupied France the Matford lorry works at Poissy were twice raided, and the Gnome-RHone aero engine works and other war factories at Gennevilli,ers twice. Submarine docks and shipping at Le Havre sustained five attacks. Naval units at Trondheim, Norway, were twice attacked. The most telling, perhaps, of the April operations' were the four successive night attacks on Rostock, including the great Heinkel factory and warehouses, docks, shipping, and a vital train ferry. The diary does not include many smaller attacks, among which was the raid bn Augsburg. .