BOMB BUSTING
OF STRONG ENEMY POSITIONS CARPET PATTERN LAID SKILFULLY. IN ANY CORNER SELECTED. LONDON, April 27. The “Daily Mail’s” correspondent with the Desert Air Force says that the Eighth Army asked for an air attack against the crest of “Razor Hill,” a strong natural fortress inside the Axis lines near the coast north of Enfidaville. The job was given to the famous “carpet bombers” of the Desert Air Force, who form one of the coldest scientific blasting weapons in existence today.
They called their task “Knocking the monkey from the stick,” because Razor Hill is so steep that German soldiers had been seen climbing up rope ladders to reach their stronghold. - Each squadron of these bombers which has been pounding Razor Hill is trained to lay in a few seconds a carpet of bombs so carefully spaced that a given area is completely blasted. These squadrons can lay their bomb carpet in any corner of the enemy territory in Tunisia at little over one hour’s notice.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1943, Page 3
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167BOMB BUSTING Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 April 1943, Page 3
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