DAYLIGHT RAIDS
GERMAN OBJECTIVES ATTACKED.
MANY MILITARY TARGETS.
NIGHT OPERATIONS ALSO. (United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 31. The Air Ministry communique states: “Royal Air Force bombers carried out daylight attacks throughout yesterday on military objectives in northern France and Holland. Damage was done to sidings at Ostend and to dispersed aircraft on the aerodrome at Querqueville, near Cherbourg, and to hangars and other aircraft at St. Ingelbert and Boulogne. “In the course of reconnaissance and escort duties, aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked gun emplacements on the Norwegian coast and a supply ship off Haugesund, north of Stavanger. The naval base at Emden was also attacked One of our aircraft is missing. “Night operations wore curtailed owing to bad weather, but attacks were made on oil refineries at Homburg, in the Rhhr, and at Monheim, near Dusseldorf, on the goods yard at Soest and the aerodromes at Duisberg, Antwerp and Courtrai. Nb aircraft were lost on these night operations.”—British Offi-
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 252, 1 August 1940, Page 5
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