EXTENSIVE RAIDS
TARGETS IN BERLIN AREA ATTACKS ON FACTORIES GERMAN VESSEL EXPLODED (Omcial Wireless) (Received Aug. 30, 11.30 a.m.) • RUGBY, Aug. 29 An Air Ministry communique states: Last night bombers extensively raided military objectives in Germany, Holland and enemy-occu-pied France. Several important targets in the Berlin area were heavily bombed. Other aircraft attacked an airframe factory at Leipzig, a Junkers works Dessau, oil plants at Reisholz, Dortmund and Nordenham, north of Bremen, and several enemy aerodromes. A large vessel lying in the canal near Rathenow, 25 miles west of Berlin, sustained a direct hit and exploded. All our aircraft returned. Two made forced landings, but the crews are safe.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21205, 30 August 1940, Page 7
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