TARGETS IN FRANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1943, Page 3

TARGETS IN FRANCE

MORE DAYLIGHT ATTACKS FROM BRITAIN AIRFIELDS & POWER STATION BOMBED. NIGHT RAIDS ON RHINELAND & RUHR. LONDON, October 25. Aircraft from Britain in daylight today attacked airfields in France. Typhoon bombers went to an airfield at Cherbourg and Mitchell bombers to an airfield at Brest. Other planes attacked a power station. Six aircraft, including two medium bombers, are missing. The crew of one bomber is safe. Mosquitos were over Germany last night, attacking targets in the Ruhr and the Rhineland. Mines were also laid in enemy waters. All the planes got back from last night’s operations. London had a short alert tonight. Last night, a few German raiders were over the coastal districts of EastAnglia. NEW METHODS OF DEALING WITH SNEAK RAIDERS. BEING STUDIED IN BRITAIN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, October 25. Fast sneak fighter-bombers which have swooped across London’s night skies at a great height have presented British experts with a new problem with which they are grappling. The raiders dive across the whole area, losing half their height in a plunge which steps up their speed and makes the job of the anti-aircraft gunners more difficult. They release their bombs at random during the dive. Mr B. J. Schonland, a former professor. of geophysics at Johannesburg University, and Dr. D. W. Ewer, Cambridge University, have devised a new equipment which it is believed will defeat the new tectics. These consist of a means of spotting for guns in the dark.