RAID ON CASSEL
DARING ATTACKS FROM LOW LEVEL MANY RUNS OVER TARGET AT GYDNIA. COMBATS WITH NIGHT FIGHTERS. (British Official' Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) RUGBY, August 28. Further accounts now available of the raid on Cassel tell how many aircraft attacked from 5,000 feet and some from 1,500 feet. The pilot of a Wellington which came in near the end of the attack saw three fires, each of about an acre in extent and after he had dropped his bombs more fires were seen. At the present stage of the war, Cassel, with 218,000 inhabitants, 80 miles east of the Ruhr, is of great importance to Germany. With the moon so bright, visibility was good. It was expected that German night fighters would be out in strength and there were many combats and many stories of how bombers drove the enemy off. The heavy bombers which attacked Gydnia had a journey of nearly 1,800 miles there and back. They found clouds over the port. They were persistent in attack, one making twelve runs over the target before dropping bombs.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1942, Page 3
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181RAID ON CASSEL Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 August 1942, Page 3
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