AIR ATTACKS BY DAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 April 1943, Page 3

AIR ATTACKS BY DAY

ON NORTHERN FRANCE FIGHTERS OPERATE AT LOW LEVEL. BUILDING BLOWN UP BY ENEMY SHELLS. LONDON, April 6. The R.A.F. were again on the offensive over Northern France today. A, Canadian Spitfire wing made a lowlevel attack on railway targets in the Dieppe area, in face of persistent anti-aircraft gunfire which came almost horizontally. One burst from these guns hit a building near an aerodrome. The building exploded, showing that it was an ammunition dump.

Later, fighter-bombers went over to attack steel works and other targets. Then other fighter-bombers bombed an aerodrome near St. Omer. No planes were lost.

NIGHT ACTIVITIES AXIS SHIPS IN CHANNEL BOMBED. TWO E-BOATS DAMAGED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.25 a.m.) RUGBY, April 6. In addition to big daylight offensives, the Fighter Command has also been active during darkness, sweeping the Channel in search of enemy shipping. One aircraft bombed one medium and one small ship ten miles north of Dieppe. The observer saw the bombs go down on the target and estimated that the leading ship was hit by more than one bomb. There was a laige flash and sparks were followed m about three minutes by flames. Typhoons last night damaged two of four E-boats sighted near Le Touquet. _, Our fighters destroyed an enemy aircraft off the north-east coast of England today.