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R.A.F. NIGHT OUT

TURIN GETS TERRIFIC HAMMERING

HALF THE CITY LEFT IN FLAMES STRONG ATTACK MADE ALSO ON LORIENT. THREE BRITISH BOMBERS LOST IN ALL OPERATIONS. LONDON, February 5. Turin, in North Italy, had a terrific hammering last night from 8,000 and 4,0001 b high explosive bombs, with tens of thousands of incendiaries. It was one of the most severe and concentrated attacks Turin has yet had.

Just how concentrated and how severe the attack was is best told from the log of one of the pilots: “As we came over the last slopes of ’ the Alps,” the pilot says, “we saw the first bombs dropping down on Turin. This was at 9.40. At 9.42 sticks of incendiaries netted down criss-cross over the target areas. It was just like someone swinging a white paint brush up and down with powerful strokes. The white lines of fire slowly turned to red as the flames took hold and among them were the flashes of highexplosive bombs. At 9.54, half of the town was well obscured by smoke billowing up and at 10.0, just 20 minutes after the first bombs had fallen, Turin Avas so well ablaze that it Avas difficult to count the fires.”

One particular fire spread out sb much that the crews were all talking about it when they got back. It Avas colossal. It could be seen 100 miles away. Although Mussolini had said that strong German anti-aircraft batteries would be established at Turin, the R.A.F. pilots said the ground fire was no more effective than when the Italian city was last attacked, two months ago. Some of the bombers flew 130 miles further south to attack, the Italian submarine yards at Spezzia. Another strong force of bombers made a heavy and concentrated raid on the German-controlled U-boat base at Lorient, in France. To complete the R.A.F.’s night out, reconnaissance planes flew over the Ruhr, spotting damage done in earlier raids and sending down even more bombs to add to the destruction. The whole of these widespread and big-scale raids were made at the cost of three aircraft. NEW STANDARD SET MOST POWERFUL ATTACKS TO DATE. AGAINST THREE COUNTRIES IN ONE NIGHT. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, February 5. Last night’s air raids were the most powerful the R.O.F. has launched against three countries in one night. They had the distinction of being large-scale and extensive attacks with a low percentage of losses. A previous similar operation was in 1940, but it was on a smaller scale.' i Today’s Italian communique says successive waves of bombers last night raided! Turin and its vicinity. Many buildings were hit. Other planes bomber Spezzia, where no important damage was done, and also Trapani.

Italians have been told that they will not be able to buy any more alcohol after Saturday, all the “hard” liquor in the country being commandeered to make synthetic rubber, fuel and other war products.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1943, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
487

R.A.F. NIGHT OUT Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1943, Page 2

R.A.F. NIGHT OUT Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1943, Page 2

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