NO BOMBERS LOST
IN ATTACK ON AXIS WORKS AT FRIEDRICHSHAFEN
SOME BOMBS ALLEGEDLY FALL ON SWISS SHORE. THREE PERSONS REPORTED KILLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.20 .a.m.) LONDON, June 21. Sirens on the German Swiss border, giving warning of the R.A.F. attack on Friedrickshafen, sounded at 1 a.m., says an eyewitness account from Berne. Immediately afterwards the first bombers were over the target. Other formations followed in continuous succession. Concentrated bombing on the chosen target was carried out, the bombers letting loose numerous high explosives and incendiaries. The detonations shook houses on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance and fires were visible until dawn. Blow after blow fell on the target until 2 a.m., when the raid suddenly ended. It is now known that the three bombers, at first reported missing from the attack on Friedrichshafen, landed safely. The Berne radio reported that British planes dropped bombs on the Swiss shore of Lake Constance, three persons being killed and one injured in one village. Incendiaries fell near Frauenfendecl.
The Berlin radio announced that 250 persons were killed in the R.A.F. raid on the Schnieder works at Le Creusot on the night of June 19.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1943, Page 4
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