ATTACK ON KIEL
DEFENCES DISORGANISED. NAVAL BASE LIGHTED UP BY HUGE FIRES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, Octobe rl4. Referring to the air raid on Kiel last night, the Air Ministry says that for an hour the defences were battered till searchlights were wavering in every direction and the gunfire became ineffective. The smoke screen which is regularly put up whenever our bombers approach Kiel provided little protection.
The crews found Kiel, in the words of one pilot, “lighted up like daylight” by huge fires and a multitude of flares. The fires were* so bright that only the bursts of the biggest bombs could be distinguished among them;
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1942, Page 4
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107ATTACK ON KIEL Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 October 1942, Page 4
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