AT SHORT RANGE
BOMBING OF FLENSBURG
AND OTHER BALTIC TARGETS.
LONG FLIGHT IN BAD WEATHER
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) RUGBY, September 24. Many of our four-engined bombers attacking the submarine building yards at Flensburg last night went down to a few hundred feet and the crews are confident that their bombs burst across the building yards, whence, after a heavy explosion, clouds of black smoke came up. Many of the bombers flew back almost at roof height and their gunners shot up searchlights and gunposts from as low as fifty feet. Other aircraft, attacking objectives further east along the Baltic coast, bombed from under a thousand feet. The weather generally was stormy over the North Sea. There were low clouds, heavy rain and hail. Icing and electrical storms made the journey difficult, but the clouds thinned and the moon lit the coastline as the bombers approached their target.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 4
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152AT SHORT RANGE Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 September 1942, Page 4
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