“TRAIN BUSTING”
PIONEERED BY NEW ZEALAND AIRMAN. DAMAGING FORM OF ATTACK. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 22. A New Zealand sergeant pilot was the pioneer of the train-busting tactics, flying a single-engined aircraft into Germany on the night of June 1 last, states the Air Ministry news service. When the Luftwaffe’s losses compelled the Germans to make a change in the use of airfields at night within range of the British intruders, the consequent decline in the use of airfields in western Europe for the enemy bombing squadrons caused our airmen to turn their attention to other methods of stinging the enemy. The intruders then turned their attention to wrecking trains, barges, coastal shipping and road convoys and attacking factories in the occupied territory. In the past month the R.A.F.’s intruders have accounted for 150 locomotives in occupied western Europe and Germany.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 May 1943, Page 3
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