ORGANISATION FEAT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1942, Page 4

ORGANISATION FEAT

IN REPETITION OF MASS RAID COMMENT ON ACHIEVEMENT OF R.A.F. ATTACKS FEASIBLE ON MUCH GREATER SCALE. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, June 2. The R.A.F.’s feat, in sending out 1000 bombers last night again, staggered even senior ,R.A.F. offi- •> cers. A majority of these officers believed that it would be some time before another raid could be made on the same scale, ) but a senior R.A.F. intelligence officer, when interviewed, that the organisation for thousand a night bomber offensives has now passed the experimental stage : and that there is no reason why 2,000 or even 4,000 bombers should not fly to Germany in one night. New lessons in manipulating hundreds of planes, learned during the raid on Saturday night, simplified the organisation for last night’s raid. Bombers left scores of aerodromes •in Britain, joined in the procession to the Ruhr and attacked their targets with mechanical precision. Many of the planes and crews which were engaged in the raid on Saturday participated last night. AU types of bombers were employed in the raid, which was the 45th against Essen, the home of the Krupp works, where 250,000 people are employed. Army Co-operation Command planes, whose duty it is to dislocate the enemy fighter stations in the neighbourhood of the Ruhr, found that some enemy aerodromes were illuminated and busily engaged in getting off fighters.