GREAT DESTRUCTION
ACHIEVED AT LORIENT IN HEAVIEST R.A.F. ATTACK YET MADE. SEVEN BRITISH BOMBERS LOST. LONDON, February 8. An. R.A.F. attack last nigbt on the German U-boat base at Lorient is described by the Air Ministry as the heaviest yet made. From . early reports the Air Ministry was able to speak of great destruction. These words are not used in official announcements unless something really big has happened- to the target.
Before last night's smashing raid on Lorient, reconnaissance aircraft had brought back photographic proof of great damage done in earlier attacks on the U-boat base. The photographs show at least ten acres of devastation in the Lorient naval yards alone. Since the Germans took over Lorient the R.A.F. has raided it 65 times.
Seven planes were lost last night, in operations which included, besides the attack on Lorient, raids on the industrial Ruhr.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1943, Page 3
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