BIG DAYLIGHT RAID
ENEMY AERODROME BEYOND PARIS BOMBED BY LARGE AMERICAN FORCE. CONSIDERABLE R.A.F. FIGHTER PROTECTION. LONDON. December 20. Nearly 300 R.A.F. fighters, escorted large formations of American bombers in a big raid on France today. They formed an umbrella for Flying Fortresses and Liberators, which attacked a large German airfield 80 miles beyond Paris and 180 miles from the French coast. It was the first time this objective was raided. . Little was seen of enemy aircraft, but when they were spotted there was little fighting. Fighters also carried out offensive patrols in Holland, where they attacked railways and canals. Mosquito bombers raided northwest Germany today. Railways, factories and an airfield were attacked. One Mosquito bomber is missing and two Coastal Command planes are also missing. . . . ... Six bombers are missing from tne operations in France.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19421221.2.23
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1942, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
135BIG DAYLIGHT RAID Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1942, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in