GREAT ACHIEVEMENT
OF AMERICAN BOMBERS
DARING RAID ON LILLE
FORTY-EIGTH ENEMY PLANES
DESTROYED.
WITH PROBOBLY ANOTHER 38
—& 19 DAMAGED
(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. October 10. Forty-eight enemy aircraft were destroyed by the United States Flying Fortress and Liberator bombers during a raid on German-held industrial establishments at Lille yesterday morning. A. further 38 were probably destroyed and 19
damaged. It is also revealed that 115 bombers took part in the operation and only four were lost. Not one of the R.A.F. fighters which escorted the bombers is missing, though they destroyed five enemy fighters.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1942, Page 3
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