HEAVY NIGHT ATTACK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 3

HEAVY NIGHT ATTACK

CLOSELY FOLLOWS DAY RAID ON FRANKFURT LARGE FIRES LEFT BLAZING. SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS IN OTHER AREAS. LONDON, October 5. Last night R.A.F. heavy bombers were out in very great strength again. Their main target was the German river port of Frankfurt, which was attacked only 12 hours after a daylight raid by American Flying Fortresses. Large fires were left burning. A small force of Lancasters attacked Ludvigshaven, and Mosquitoes raided other places in north-west Germany. Twelve of our bombers are missing. Last night’s attack was the first exceeding 500 tons to be made on Frankfurt. Three enemy planes fell to one Typhoon squadron yesterday, bringing its total up to 199. A few German raiders were over England last night, bombs being dropped on one place on the east coast. R.A.F. fighters and fighter-bombers kept up their assault on the enemy in France and the Low Countries today. Barges and an oil refinery were attacked. Four enemy aircraft were destroyed. Six R.A.F. machines are ■ missing. I 75 NAZI FIGHTERS SHOT DOWN BY AMERICAN AIRCRAFT. J AGAINST LOSS OF FIFTEEN J BOMBERS. LONDON, October 4. i The American Air Force struck J another heavy blow against the < Luftwaffe in daylight operations < from Britain today, shooting down a total of 75 enemy fighters, it was i announced by the Air Ministry. < A strong force of Fortresses attacked I an aircraft component factory in i Frankfurt and other targets in west t Germany, also an airfield at Saint i Dizier, in France. Liberators engaged j in simultaneous operations over the 1 North Sea. The Fortresses and Liber- c ators encountered strong opposition a and destroyed 56 enemy fighters. < Fiftedh heavy bombers arc missing 1 from all these operations. c j TYPHOONS ACTIVE ‘ A t ENEMY SHIPPING DESTROYED. x c RAILWAY TARGETS ATTACKED. r t (British Official Wireless.) . (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) RUGBY, October 5. ® The Air Ministry states: “Typhoons . attacked enemy shipping among the b Dutch islands yesterday. Several small vessels were destroyed. Other Ty- f phoons attacked locomotives, railways 1 and other targets in France. Three enemy fighters were destroyed. Five of our aircraft are missing. It is now x ' known that three additional enemy air- ® craft were destroyed on Sunday, making a total of 26 for the day.” i