AIR ONSLAUGHT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 August 1943, Page 3

AIR ONSLAUGHT

ON ENEMY=OCCUPIED EUROPE AIRFIELDS AND RAILWAY TARGETS. MOSQUITOES VISIT BERLIN. LONDON, August 20. The Allied air blitz on German-occupied Europe was continued today with attacks on targets in France and Holland. An aircraft factory at Flushing and marshalling yards at Abbeville were attacked, without much opposition from German fighters. Only one raiding aircraft was lost, but the crew were saved. Last night Mosquitoes made another raid on Berlin. Other aircraft surprised and sank a German minesweeper headed for Calais. Mosquitoes and Typhoons went for enemy airfields and railways. The airfield at Tours was bombed by intruders. Bombs were dropped on the dispersal areas. A marshalling yard at Orleans was bombed and twelve trains shot up in other areas, five by one pilot. REPRISAL RAIDS HINTS FROM PARIS & BERLIN. REFERENCE BY GOEBBELS. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, August 20. Large scale German reprisal raids against England are imminent, according to air circles in Berlin, said the Paris radio. England will rue the day she ever started bombing German cities. Meanwhile, the British have tightened up their anti-aircraft defences in the expectation of such raids. Goebbels, in an article in the “Dasreich said: “The enemy may bring want and unhappiness upon our towns but that will come to an end. A new offensive weapon against the enemy’s warfare is being built up. Innumerable busy hands are working on it day and night."