FORESTS ON FIRE
LONG AIR FORCE RAIDS FURTHEST EAST YET EXPLOSIONS AND BOMBS (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received Sept. 6, 3.15 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 5 The Air Ministry states: Last night’s raid on a synthetic oil plant at Politz, ten miles north of Stettin, was the furthest east the Royal Air Force has bombed in Germany, involving a flight of 1200 miles. Antiaircraft guns at Politz and Stettin and on the east bank of the Odfr went into action furiously throughout the two-hour raid. High explosive bombs straddled the oil plant, toppling over the tall chimneys and causing 15 large fires. The raiders bombed Berlin West and a power station at Charlottenburg, causing fires. Three great tracts of forest were set on fire again • —namely, the Black Forest, Thuringen and Oberharz, where ammunition dumps and important military industrial buildings were set ablaze. Hundreds of canisters of incendiary bombs fell at quarter-mile intervals, starting miles of fires in the dry pinewoods.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WT19400906.2.80
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
161FORESTS ON FIRE Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21211, 6 September 1940, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Waikato Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in