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COLOGNE & OTHER TARGETS IN RHINELAND EIGHTEEN BRITISH BOMBERS MISSING. AXIS AIRCRAFT LOSSES DURING WAR. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 16. A strong force of R.A.F. bombers was over the Rhineland last night, and Cologne, second city of the Reich, was one of the targets. Eighteen bombers are missing.
It was the 110th raid on Cologne, which has a population of some 768,000 —or did have before the R.A.F.’s first 1000-bomber raid in May. Britain had a raid-free night.
Ten thousand Axis aircraft have been brought down during the war, not counting the heavy enemy losses in Russia, the Far East, and the Pacific. This figure is given by the English magazine “Aeroplane,” which pays a tribute to the United States air forces.
Referring to the heavy toll of German fighters taken by Flying Fortresses and Liberator bombers in the recent raid on Lille, the paper says that the United States machines are winning their successes with a weapon the R.A.F. never possessed—the .5 machinegun. The R.A.F. is equipped only with .303 machine-guns and 20-millimetre cannon.
Four German raiders came over the south-west coast of England today, bombed a village and machine-gunned children in a school playground. Two other raiders bombed a town on the south-east coast.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1942, Page 3
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