ONCE AGAIN
BRITISH BOMBERS BLAST TURIN — / FIRST USE OF B,OOOLB. BOMBS IMMENSE FIRES STARTED. ■ GREAT DAMAGE ADMITTED BY ITALIANS. LONDON, November 29. Home-based British bombers last night dropped some of the new B,ooolb. bombs in a heavy and concentrated attack on the great railway and war industrial, centre of Turin, in central Italy. In addition to the B,ooolb. bombs, a great many other high explosives and more than 100,000 incendiary bombs crashed down on the great manufacturing and railway centre. One pilot described three very large areas covered with glowing red fires. A Stirling bomber attacked a factory from an altitude of under 2,000 feet and flew over its target, about a dozen times. One stick of bombs exploded with such force that the plane was thrown upward by the force of the blast. Another pilot reported seeing huge fires spreading in the direction of the Royal Arsenal.
Rome admits that great damage was done. Turin was last bombed nine days ago, when a powerful force of our bombers concentrated their attack into less than an hour.
The “Popolo d’ltalia” says that 350,000 of Milan’s 1,100,000 population have been evacuated in fear of further air raids.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1942, Page 3
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