TORRENT OF BOMBS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1942, Page 3

TORRENT OF BOMBS

DROPPED ON GENOA IN SPACE OF 25 MINUTES. SOME IMPRESSIVE DETAILS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) ■ RUGBY, November 16. Hundreds of bombs of 1000 pounds or more fell on Genoa in less than 25 minutes last night, when R.A.F. heavy bombers attacked the port for the sixth time since the opening of the Mediterranean offensive. It was the third attack achieved without loss. Once again the weather was just right and the town and docks stood out so clearly that the crews could see how some buildings had been left empty shells from previous attack's. One Halifax pilot said: “Flares were being dropped over the target as- we flew towards it. Bomb flashes lit up the streets and good fires started. I could see smoke blowing out over the Gulf of Genoa.”

Another pilot described how he watched a fire start at one end of a line of warehouses on a strip of land jutting out into the inner harbour and spread along the whole length of the line. A Lancaster pilot said there was so much light overhead that the Italian searchlights went out one by one until not one was left.