ATTACK ON BREMEN

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 June 1942, Page 3

ATTACK ON BREMEN

THIRD THOUSAND-BOMBER RAID ON REICH Many Important Targets Bombed INCLUDING AIRCRAFT AND SHIPBUILDING WORKS FIFTY-TWO BRITISH PLANES FAIL TO RETURN LONDON, June 26. The Air Ministry announces that the Royal Air Force last night made another 1000-bomber raid on Germany, this time on the great river port of Bremen in north-west Germany. Details are lacking, but it is known that 52 bombers failed to return. , _ . . , This is the third 1000-bomber raid, on the Reich, the last, on June 1, being on Essen and the Ruhr, and the first, two nights before, on Cologne. Bremen is Germany’s second largest port and is an important industrial and shipbuilding centre. It was Bremen’s 95th raid. The targets included the Focke-Wulf aeroplane works, ship- ' building yards, a large dive-bomber works, an important oil refinery and a steel works. One of our reconnaissance planes reported this afternoon that fires were still burning in Bremen. It is not yet possible to assess the damage. The actual bombing was concentrated m l-i hours. The night was so short and the journey so long that the attackers took off and returned in daylight. The moon and northern lights made visibility overhead ideal. . Besides British and Canadian pilots, Polish and Czech airmen participated in the raid.