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TURIN UNDER TEMPEST OF BOMBING “BUILDINGS WENT UP LIKE MUSHROOMS.” FIRES SPREAD RAPIDLY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) RUGBY, November 19. Bright moonlight and great numbers of flares floodlit Turin last night, says the Air Ministry news service. There was so much light and visibility was so good that some of our bombers flew ever the city almost in formation. At one time seven Halifaxes were flying nearly wing-tip.to wing-tip. They bombed within a few seconds of each other, and left lines of fire and devastating explosions. “It'was even brighter than Genoa the night before,” said a Halifax pilot. “All the streets and bridges stood out clearly. I saw fires increase very rapidly. There was plenty of fiak at the beginning of the attack, but it all died down towards the end.” Bombs were seen to burst on the Turin marshalling yard and on factories. A Lancaster pilot said: “Buildings went up like mushrooms, and a pall of smoke hung over one half the town. Many 40001 b. bombs were dropped, and some of them were seen to hit the Fiat aero engine factory.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1942, Page 4
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189BRIGHTLY LIT Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1942, Page 4
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