ALL PLANES RETURN.
THE RAIDS OVER GERMANY.
EXTENSIVE NIGHT OPERATIONS.
(Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, September 26
“All our aircraft returned safely from extensive bombing operations over, Germany and the Channel ports last night,” states an Air Ministry communique. “In Berlin aircraft of tlic Bomber Command attacked power stations, railway communications, and the Tempelhof aerodrome. “At Kiel the docks were, bombed and the goods yards at Osnabruck, Ehrang, Hamm, Mannheim and Hanover were also damaged. Shipping, barges and quayside stores at Antwerp, Flushing, Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais and Boulogne were again attacked. Aircraft of the Coastal Command shot down an enemy bomber in the sea yesterday afternoon. “Forces of the Coastal Command last night bombed oil tanks at Brest and the tanks were' set on fire. Shipping in the harbour, was also severely damaged.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 301, 27 September 1940, Page 5
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