WIDESPREAD RAIDS
ON ENEMY-OCCUPIED TERRITORY MADE BY R.A.F. FIGHTERS. SHIPPING ATTACKED OFF DUTCH COAST. LONDON, July 18. R.A.F. fighters were out last night over France, Holland and Belgium attacking airfields and railway targets, as well as shipping off the Dutch coast. One aircraft is missing. A German aircraft was destroyed off the south coast, of England. A reconnaissance plane which flew over Cologne a week after the last R.A.F. raid reported a fire still burning in a big chemical factory. Photographs show that serious damage was inflicted on Cologne’s U-boat engineering works, the second largest in Germany.
50 AXIS PLANES
DESTROYED BY FLYING FORTRESSES. DURING DAYLIGHT BOMBING. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 17. Fifty enemy fighters, according to early claims, were destroyed jvhen unescorted Flying Fortresses of the United States Eighth Air Force, of which only two are missing, raided industrial targets at Amsterdam and in north-western Germany today. An official communique, giving this news, says that bombs were seen to burst in the target areas. Heavy fighter opposition was encountered on the way home.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 July 1943, Page 3
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