BOMBS AND FIRES
CONCEALED TARGETS ATTACKS ON CONTINENT OIL PLANTS DAMAGED (Omcial Wireless) (Received Sept. 7, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 6 Royal Air Force attacks were made last night on a number of military objectives in Germany, which again include those concealed in the great German forests. An Air Ministry communique states: Military objectives concealed in German forests and important enemy oil installations were again the principal targets attacked by the Royal Air Force last night. Our bombers started fires in the Hartz mountains and the Black' Forest and bombed a synthetic oil plant at Stettin, tanks at Kiel and refineries at Hamburg and at Regensburg. They also raided the Emden docks, the goods yards at Hamm and Soest, and a number of German and Dutch aerodromes. Another force of our bombers again attacked the Fiat aero-engine works at Turin. The Port of Boulogne was subjected to heavy bombing last night by aircraft of the Bomber Command, the Coastal Command and the Fleet Air Arm. Bomber Command aircraft also attacked gun positions at Cap Griz Nez and the harbour at Calais. Three of our aircraft have not returned.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 9
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188BOMBS AND FIRES Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21212, 7 September 1940, Page 9
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