MANY AIR ATTACKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1943, Page 3

MANY AIR ATTACKS

ON GERMANY & OCCUPIED TERRITORY SOLINGEN GETS ANOTHER BATTERING. WIDESPREAD OPERATIONS IN DAYLIGHT. LONDON, December 2. Large format ions of Fortresses .arid Liberators escorted by Thunderbolts and Lightnings in daylight, yesterday attacked the German industrial town of Solingen. Twen-ty-three German interceptors were destroyed. Spitfires and Typhoons carried out supporting operations, the Spitfires destroying two German fighters.

American Marauders, supported and covered by R.A.F., Dominion and Allied Spitfires, bombed German airfields at Lille and Cambrai. Three enemy fighters were shot down. Mitchells attacked German aircraft works at Albert. Mosquitoes bombed industrial targets in Holland and attacked shipping off Brest Peninsula. Two enemy fighters were destroyed. Pilots on offshore patrols shot down three Junkers 88s south of Land’s End. From all these operations, 27 heavy bombers and one light bomber and 14 fighters are missing, but one fighter pilot is safe. RAID ON CHERBOURG. R.A.F. medium bombers and fighterbombers attacked targets in the Cherbourg Peninsula, with a fighter escort. All the planes got back safely. Earlier in the day a German longrange heavy bomber was shot down over the Channel. The crew of five were rescued by naval craft. Last night the R.A.F. laid more mines in enemy shipping lanes. Two planes are missing. A few German raiders last night dropped bombs in East Anglia and South-East England. There was little damage and few casualties. Anti-aircraft fire shot down an enemy plane that crossed the southeast coast of England for a few minutes this morning.