NIGHT BOMBING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1942, Page 3

NIGHT BOMBING

» BRITISH AND GERMAN OPERATIONS BALANCE HEAVILY AGAINST ENEMY. DUISBERG AGAIN BLASTED BY STRONG FORCE. LONDON, July 24. Last night, in unfavourable weather, R.A.F. bombers again attacked the Ruhr and Rhineland. For the second night in succession Duisberg was the main target. A strong force of bombers went over, carrying a number of the giant 40001 b. bombs. Three German night fighters were destroyed. Other R.A.F. bombers attacked targets in German-occupied Europe. Seven British bombers are missing. Seven German bombers were destroyed over Britain last night from a force several times smaller than the British one which raided Germany. About 40 German raiders made attacks at scattered points in eastern and Midlands area. There was no concentrated attack. A Beaufighter squadron shot down five of the raiders. British fighters were again out over Occupied France today. A big factory at Abbeville was damaged. German troops were shot up and railway and river supply lines and a goods train were attacked. Some people were killed on the east' 4 coast of England this afternoon by a single enemy raider which dropped bombs. PRECEDING RAID EVIDENCE OF HEAVY DAMAGE. EFFECT OF 4,0001 b. BOMBS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 23. Photographs taken during Tuesday night’s attack on Duisberg. con firm the reports of the crews that this was one of the most successful raid's carried out on the Ruhr. Large fires are shown in many parts of the industrial area at the western end of the Ruhr, including the Duisberg Hochfield district, the Hocheide area of Homberg, and other areas to the north, south, and south-west of the town. The photographs emphasise that by the end of the attack fires had taken a good hold and were spreading. The photographs also* show that many more high-explosive bombs were dropped than was at first indicated, and in some of the pictures the effect of the 40001 b. bombs is obvious.