ATTACKS BY DAY
ON ENEMY AIRFIELDS IN FRANCE ] MADE BY AMERICAN BOMBERS. I I SUPPORTED BY ALLIED FIGHTERS. (British Official Wireless.) ’ (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) RUGBY, August 2. An Air Ministry and American Army Headquarters communique states: “Medium bombers of the American Eighth Air Force attacked German airfields at Merville and St Omer, in France, in daylight today. The crews reported bomb bursts on both target area. There was intense flak over the targets, but no enemy fighters were encountered. R.A.F., Dominion and Allied fighters escorted and supported the operation?. None of our aircraft arc missing." RAID ON DUNKIRK. . An Air Ministry communique states: “Escorted by fighters, Typhoon bombers. one of which is missing, attacked enemy shipping in the harbour at Dunkirk. Other Typhoons bombed the airfield of Mardyck, where bursts were seen on a runway.
“In the Bay of Biscay, off the mouth of the Gironde River, this morning, Mosquitoes set fire to two armed trawlers, which were left sinking, and a Beaufighter destroyed a Fockc-Wulf 200.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 August 1943, Page 4
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