NIGHT FIGHTERS
SUCCESSFUL ATTACKS ON ENEMY RAILWAY AND OTHER TARGETS. SOME LOW-LEVEL BOMBING. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY, July 31. The Fighter Command made successful attacks on a factory in Holland during the night. Other night fighters attacked railway engines, marshalling yards and goods sheds. Boston bombers scored hits on a factory, one Canadian pilot dropping bombs from GOO feet, while a flight sergeant also scored hits from 500 feet. One fighter pilot saw a fishing craft sunk by fire aimed at him as he crossed the French coast. He blew up a railway engine between Lille and Bethune, and damaged another.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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106NIGHT FIGHTERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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