RAID ON LUBECK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 July 1942, Page 4

RAID ON LUBECK

DAMAGE DONE BY BRITISH BOMBERS TO U-BOAT BUILDING YARDS. LATELY ENLARGED & IMPROVED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) RUGBY, July 17. Describing yesterday’s daylight attack by Stirling bombers on the sub-marine-building yards near Lubeck, the Air Ministry news service says these were not among the shipyards bombed when so much of Lubeck was destroyed on the night of March 28. They are well beyond the suburbs of Lubeck and a good deal nearer the mouth oi the winding River Trave. They have recently been enlarged and new buildings have been erected there. There was unbroken cloud over the targe , but the cloud base was at 5,000 feet and all the bombing was done from helow that height, sometimes as low as 600 feet. The Stirling crews are confident that their aim was accurate and ed fires in the shipyards and by the Over" Denmark the cloud base _ was much higher, and on the return journey there were many encounters enemy fighters. One Stirling was attacked bv five fighters within a quarter of al hour, one being destroyed and the others breaking off the engagement.