ATTACK ON ROUEN
FLYING FORTRESSES BOMB SHIPYARDS ENEMY FIGHTERS BEATEN OFF. VAIN ATTEMPTS TO REACH BOMBERS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) RUGBY, August 24. Protected by Fighter Command squadrons of Spitfires. Flying Fortresses of the United States Army Air Force today bombed shipbuilding yards near Rouen. Two enemy fighters were destroyed and several others were damaged. Two R.A.F. fighters are missing. While the Flying Fortresses were attacking under escort, more squadrons of Spitfires, including United States Army Air Force pilots, swept in over the coast between Etretan and Abbeville. Fierce dogfights developed over the target, where a least forty enemy fighters tried vainly to get at the bombers, all of which returned safely.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420825.2.44
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
116ATTACK ON ROUEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1942, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in