WIDESPREAD RAIDS
MORE POWERFUL BOMBERS DESTROYER TORPEDOED ROYAL AIR FORCE ACTIVITY {Official Wireless) (Received March 14, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, March 13 A new and more powerful type of bombers were again in action last night, taking part in the widespread raids carried out by the Royal Air Force, extending from Berlin to Boulogne. The Air Ministry News Service, in giving this information and stressing the number of fires and explosions resulting from these raids, which were carried out by the light of the moon, also gives details of the torpedoing of a German destroyer in the Skager-Rak by a Coastal Com- 1 mand Beaufort. Flying low to make a broadside attack, the British bomber was met by heavy fire but launched her torpedo and turned safely away. An explosion came a few minutes later, and was described by the watching rear-gunner as “a great white flash—the biggest I have ever seen.” He added that it was too dark to see whether the ship was still there, but there was no more gunfire from her. Other Coastal Command aircraft attacked an aerodrome in Soutnern Norway and shipping docks at Ostend, Ijmuiden and Boulogne.
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Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21370, 14 March 1941, Page 5
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