SUSTAINED AIR ATTACK
STRONG BOMBER FORCES NAZIS AGAIN RAIDED BERLIN AMONG OBJECTIVES
(United Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 1. “The. Royal Air Force visit to Berlin last night consisted of a Sustained attack on objectives carried out by strong bomber forces. Other bomber forces attacked oil refineries at Leuna and Hanover, the aircraft factory at Rotenburg, a munition factory near Magdeburg, goods yards and rail communications at Bremen, Ehrang, Osnabruck, Mannheim and Brussels, docks at Cuxhaven and Amsterdam, the Channel ports of Ostend, Dunkirk, Calais, Boulogne and Le Havre, and several enemy aerodromes,” states an Air Ministry communique. “In the course of these operations aircraft of the Bomber Command engaged and shot down an enemy aircraft into the sea. Coastal Command aircraft, operating with the Fleet Air Arm, attacked docks and petrol stores at Rotterdam and Vlaaraingen, shipping and stores at Ostend and -set fire to an oil dump at Hamsede aerodrome. Five of our aircraft are missing.” —British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 60, Issue 305, 2 October 1940, Page 5
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