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MADE BY BRITISH PLANES OVER NORTHERN FRANCE AND BELGIUM. RAILWAY TARGETS ATTACKED. LONDON, December 14. Squadrons of fighters and bombers, operating singly, were out over Northern France and Belgium today. Railway targets wore attacked. No enemy aircraft were encountered and no British planes are missing. EARLIER OPERATIONS TWENTY ENEMY PLANES , DESTROYED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, December 13. Yesterday. 18 German fighters were destroyed when a large force of American heavy bombers, escorted by 300 British fighters, made a heavy attack on German-occupied territory in Europe. The main target was Rouen. Two American bombers and four British fighters were lost. The enemy lost two other fighters over. Holland, making 20 for the day. The Vichy radio says that the R.A.Ij . raided Danzig yesterday and incendiary bombs fell in the centre of the city.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1942, Page 3
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