AIR OFFENSIVE
♦ — HEAVY RAIDS IN PAST 48 HOURS All R.A.F. Commands Participate i DEMONSTRATION OF ALLIED ATTACKING POWER RUGBY, February 27. It is officially announced this afternoon that during the past 48 hours the four home Royal Air Force commands —fighter, bomber, coastal and army co-operation—flew more than 2000 operational sorties, amounting to 1,500,000 miles. The operations began with the heavy raid on Nuremburg on the night before last and attacks on targets in western Germany and minelaying, which was followed yesterday by British and American raids on the docks at Dunkirk, on airfields near Cherbourg, and on a U-boat stores depot at Rennes, while Liberators attacked (Wilhelmshaven. Then, last night, Cologne received an extremely heavy battering, and today Allied bombers and fighters continued attacks across the Channel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1943, Page 3
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128AIR OFFENSIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1943, Page 3
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