ON GREAT SCALE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 January 1943, Page 4

ON GREAT SCALE

ALLIED AIR ATTACKS IN DAYLIGHT ON TARGETS IN OCCUPIED FRANCE. SOME LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, Noon.) RUGBY, January 13. R.A.F., Dominion and Allied air forces carried out extensive operations over Northern France, United States Flying Fortresses bombed industrial plants at Lille and numerous bursts were seen on the target and in. railway yards. There were a number of encounters with enemy aircraft. From this operation three Fortresses are missing. Bostons, escorted by United States Spitfires, bombed the airfield at St. Omer. Marauders, with an escort, bombed the airfield at Abbeville. Many squadrons of R.A.F. Bostons and Allied aircraft carried out covering and supporting operations, in which three enemy fighters were destroyed. The bombers were escorted by nearly 400 fighters. ATTACKS ON RAILWAYS BOTH FIGHTERS & BOMBERS IN ACTION. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.20 p.m.) RUGBY, January 13. The Air Ministry states: “On. Wednesday morning, fighters, two of which are missing, attacked canal barges and gun positions in Holland. This afternoon the Bomber Command, without loss, bombed railway yards in Northern France. The attacks were made from a low level. Direct hits were seen on. engine sheds, locomotives and railway yards.”