DAY AND NIGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1942, Page 3

DAY AND NIGHT

AIR OFFENSIVE AGAINST ENEMY SHIPPING AND RAILWAYS ATTACKED. NEW ENGINE FOR SPITFIRES. LONDON, December 10. The day and night air offensive against the enemy was kept up today by more fighter attacks on German shipping off the Belgian coast and railways in Northern France. Two planes are missing. Some of Britain’s famous Spitfire fighters are now being fitted with a new double supercharged engine, which will enable the planes to rule the skies higher than ever before. It will put them much ahead of Germany’s latest fighter. HIT BY TORPEDO ENEMY SUPPLY SHIP OFF NORWEGIAN COAST. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) RUGBY, December 10. Yesterday a Hampden of the Coastal Command hit an enemy supply ship with a torpedo off the coast of Norway. TUNNEL BOMBED PILOT’S SUCCESSFUL MISSION. i OBJECTIVE NEAR PARIS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) RUGBY, December 10. The Air Ministry describes how a Mosquito bomber successfully bombed a railway tunnel 40 miles north-west of Paris at dusk yesterday. A squadron leader was briefed to place a bomb in the mouth of the tunnel itself. Flying along the track the pilot released a bomb with a short delayed action and then lifted the machine over the tunnel. This bomb was seen to skid right into the tunnel. A second bomb aimed at the tunnel hit the stonework around the mouth. The pilot then flew east to the other entrance of the tunnel and saw a train entering. He bombed the track and flew back again to the west entrance, where black smoke was drifting out of the tunnel. He waited ten minutes but the train did not reappear.