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DEVASTATING BLOW

STRUCK BY R.A.F. AT AACHEN FIRES BURN FOR MANY HOURS. AXIS RAID ON BRITAIN CAUSES SOME CASUALTIES. LONDON, July 14. Many hours after an R.A.F. raid on Aachen last night, ‘tires were still burning in this important railway and industrial. centre. Clouds of thick smoke were rising more than four miles high. Among a big load of high explosives and incendiaries dropped on the targets were 80001 b. bombs. Twenty of the attacking aircraft were lost. Better known by its old name of Aixla-Chapelle, Aachen, though only 40 miles from Cologne, had not been raided for a year and a half. It is an industrial, coal and textile centre and there are big rubber, glass and engineering works, but it is even more important as a big railway junction, through which Germany sends many of her war supplies to France and the Low Countries. German night raiders made a sharp attack on the north-east coast of England last night, when some people were killed. At least two German aircraft were destroyed. The German news agency says the Luftwaffe last night heavily raided Hull and dropped bombs of all calibres in the harbour area and also raided important military targets in South-East England. ________

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1943, Page 3

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204

DEVASTATING BLOW Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1943, Page 3

DEVASTATING BLOW Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1943, Page 3

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