INTENSE BOMBING

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 210, 13 June 1940, Page 5

INTENSE BOMBING

ATTACK BY ROYAL AIR FORCE. HUNDRED MISSILES A MINUTE. HITS ON 'MANY TARGETS. __ £ G‘'T] 'v,; ;.r V (United "Press Association—Copyright ’ (Received This Day 3 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, June 12. High-explosive. and incendiary bombs were dropped at the rate of over 100 a minute during one lOj-minute action yesterday by Royal Air.'Force medium bombers in one series of attacks directed against enemy concentrations advancing on, the Lower Seine, south-east of Rouen. Attacking in' sections at heights varying from 6000 to' 800 feet, the Royal Air Force released salvos of bombs\ 'targets, .precking convoys, scattering mechanised columns, blocking road junctions and setting the woods ablaze. Hits were scored on a column of lorries near Les and Lys. Twenty armoured fighting vehicles on a road one mile south-east of the town received a full salvo of high-explosive bombs, and »10. large tanks standing by \ the roadside, at-Spza.v. were -enveloped in smoke and flying debris when Heavy?• calibre bombs exploded on the road; Other targets successfully attacked during this 10-minute intensive assault included an anti-aii*craft battery near Les and Lys, and a mechanised column at Rachovillo. At the height of this raid one bomber’s starboard airscrew was shot off and the engine disabled, but after dropping their bombs on the targets the crew returned safely on the one undamaged engine.— British Official Wireless. '■ ;