MANY AIR ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1943, Page 4

MANY AIR ATTACKS

ON GERMAN OCCUPIED EUROPE BERLIN AMONG TARGETS. AMERICANS BOMB ST. OMER IN DAYLIGHT. LONDON August 15. Mosquito planes raided targets in Berlin and other aircraft attacked airfields and runways in France and Belgium. The night’s operations, including the attack on Milan, cost one bomber.

In daylight today American medium bombers attacked the airfield at St Omer, in Northern France. In svzeeps over Holland, Belgium and France, Spitfires and Typhoons shot down two German fighters. Four British fighters are missing.

NON-STOP BLITZ ON TARGETS WELL INLAND, (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.27 a.m.) RUGBY, August 15. It has been a day of continual air activity over the south-east coast and Channel. Allied aircraft have been heard and seen passing over to the Continent all day. The first big sweep went over before dawn and another soon after, followed by other formations during the morning and again in the afternoon. They returned at intervals, mostly by the same route. _ That today’s non-stop Continental blitz has been on targets well inland, is evidenced by the fact that the crash of bombs has not been heard on this side of the Channel. The weather in the straits today has been somewhat changeable. In the morning the wind was north-east and in the afternoon south-west. It has been fine and clear, with well-nigh perfect visibility.