FIRES & EXPLOSIONS
SMOKE RISES 15,000 FEET FROM WUPPERTAL TREMENDOUSLY DAMAGING ATTACK. ONE OF THE HEAVIEST OF WAR. (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) RUGBY. May .30. By the time the British Bomber Command’s heavy attack on the town of Wuppertal, in the Ruhr, was over last night, smoke from fires burning in the city had reached a height of 15,000 feet, says the Air Ministry, describing the raid. „ Wuppertal is on the edge of the Ruhr and came into being in 1929, when the Germans united the two industrial towns of Elberfeld and Barmen. It is the first time the place has been attacked and its first raid was one of the heaviest of the war. The load of bombs dropped was well over 1,500 tons.
One of the British pilots said there was some haze when they arrived at Wuppertal, but the fires took hold pretty quickly and he was able to pick out buildings and factories easily. Then really good fires caught hold and great clouds of smoke began rolling up. Just as he was leaving there were two huge explosions and a mass of flame leapt 800 feet in the air.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 4
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