FIRES IN MUNICH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1942, Page 4

FIRES IN MUNICH

SEEN FROM HUNDRED MILES AWAY HEAVY DAMAGE TO NAZI WAR FACTORIES. ENEMY FIGHTER SHOT DOWN OVER CHANNEL. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 12.20 p.m.) RUGBY, September 20. The Bomber Command last night sent two separate forces to Germany. One struck at the Saar Valley and the other, composed entirely of four-engined bombers, went to Munich. They left large fires burning in the industrial quarters of the city. Munich is an important railway centre, with locomotive and wagon repair shops. It also has many factories in full war production, notably large engineering and motor works. Submarine and aero engines, tanks, armoured cars, hand grenades and motor tires are among the essential products which Munich now turns cut. The attack was concentrated into a little oveor half an hour. The targets were clearly visible and the air crews saw the Railway Station, the curves of the river, the Brown House and other administrative buildings of the Nazi Party. The aircraft dropped their heavy high-explosive bombs among fires started by incendiaries. The crews were a hundred miles or more on their homeward journey before they lost sight of the glow of the ’ Munich fires. The bombers sent to the Saar also did good work and one of the Wellingtons shot down a Focke Wulf 190 in flames over the Channel.