LOCO REPAIR SHOP
IN WESTERN GERMANY BLOWN UP BY MOSQUITO BOMBERS. LONG DAYLIGHT FLIGHT OVER ENEMY TERRITORY. LONDON, March 16. British Mosquito bombers in daylight today blew up a locomotive repair shop at Paderborn, in Western Germany. They made a return flight of 800 miles, more than 500 miles'of the distance being over enemy territory. One pilot saw the bombs explode fight on the target and smoke billowed up to a height of 3,000 to 4,000 feet. He saw people running in the streets as he dived down to attack. One Mosquito is missing. HEAVY DAMAGE done to Krupp works. IN LATEST RAID ON ESSEN. LONDON, March 16. R.A.F. reconnaissances over Essen show that the Krupps Armament and Engineering Works were again badly damaged in the last R.A.F. raid. Thirty-four workshops were hit, 13 severely. The vast locomotive building shop was severely damaged and the foiling stock shop was totally destroyed. Munich, it is stated, is still without a gas supply as the result of the last R.A.F. raid. .
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 March 1943, Page 4
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