ESSEN BLASTED
WITH MANY 4,000L8. BOMBS
GREAT FIRES LEFT BURNING.
EXTENSIVE MINE-LAYING.
LONDON, January 10.
Many 40001 b. bombs were dropped on Essen in last night’s R.A.F. raid. The weather was good for bombing. Pilots report a hail of antiaircraft gunfire and a great concentration of searchlights. Big fires were started and the railway yards and a gas holder were well alight. Extensive mine laying operations were also carried out. Seven aircraft were lost.
An Air Ministry bulletin states: “Venturas of the Bomber Command, escorted by Spitfires, bombed the iron and steel works at Ijmuiden yesterday. Bursts were seen on the furnaces and coke ovens. Mosquitos attacked targets in northern France and Belgium. Squadrons of our fighters made offensive sweeps over northern France. Some enemy fighters were engaged and one was destroyed. One of our fighters and one bomber are missing.” Britain had another raid-free night. A few scattered German aircraft came over Eastern England and the southwest coast today. One was shot down into the sea off a south-west coast resort.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1943, Page 3
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