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PERFECTLY TIMED

AMERICAN AIR RAID ON GERMAN BASE IN NORWAY STRONG ENEMY FORCES THROWN INTO CONFUSION. DESTRUCTIVE ONSLAUGHT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, November 28. Large-scale German military manoeuvres were interrupted when American bombers raided the Jelle'r airfield and aeroplane factory on November 18, according to informatibh reaching Norwegian circles in London. Eyewitnesses state that the raid was perfectly timed and coincided, with the arrival on the airfield of strong German mechanised units. The defences were thrown into confusion as the all clear was sounded instead of the alarm. The Germans thought the attacking bombers were part of the manoeuvres and it took some time before anti-air-craft guns went into action. As bombs began to fall, guns could be seen turning over in clouds of earth. Extensive fires broke out in the target area. Three large new hangars and a number of smaller hangars, two workshops, an officers’ mess and many vehicles were destroyed by fire. Eighteen German planes, including six new Messerschmitts, were destroyed in the hangars. Several hundred aeroplane engines which were being overhauled in a factory, were also destroyed. No enemy fighters took off from the airfield, but a few arrived from Gardenoen, 15 miles further north. Seven of these were shot down by the bombers. Three-quarters of the target is estimated to have been destroyed or damaged. Petrol stores at the airfield exploded several, hours after the raid, killing many Germans and causing extensive fires to flare up again. A report says 250 Germans are estimated to have been killed and 40 injured. Many bodies, including that of the German Chief Engineer Leufke, could be seen on the airfield after the petrol dump had blown up. There were only three Norwegian casualties. The Germans had sent away all. conscripted Norwegian workers in view of the military manoeuvres.

BLOWN UP

MAIN RAILWAY LINES ROUND OSLO. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.50 a.m.) RUGBY, November 28. Railway line's were blown up simultaneously at several points in and around Oslo at 6 a.m. last Friday, according to the Swedish newspaper “Allehande.” Among the railway communications damaged or delayed were all the main lines running from Oslo to Brammer, Moss, Trondheim, Gjoevik and Sweden. The German police have roped off all areas and all trains are being searched. ■

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19431129.2.30

Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1943, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
383

PERFECTLY TIMED Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1943, Page 4

PERFECTLY TIMED Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 November 1943, Page 4

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