RAIDS ON FRANCE
EXPLOSIVES START FIRES NAZI AERODROMES ATTACKED ROYAL AIR FORCE SUCCESS (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 5, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 4 From soon after nine o’clock last night until one o’clock this morning, states the Air Ministry, Royal Air Force bombers made a series of counter-attacks on the advanced striking bases of the German Air Force in the Pas de Calais area. The operation opened with an attack by several bombers on the Le Touquet aerodrome. High explosives were dropped on the landing grounds. Later aircraft maintained the attack, and the pilot of one saw six separate fires on the aerodrome. Another squadron bombed the Stomer aerodrome and scored hits on the landing ground, which were followed by explosions.
An aerodrome at Calais was attacked at 12.15 a.m., and at 1 a.m. another raider bombed the airfield at Guines, south-east of Calais. Further inland two raiders were bombing the Abbeville aerodrome when a battery of heavy anti-aircraft guns began firing at one of them. The other aircraft dropped a salvo of high explosives on the guns, which at once ceased firing.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21210, 5 September 1940, Page 7
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183RAIDS ON FRANCE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21210, 5 September 1940, Page 7
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