HEAVY ATTACK
MANNHEIM AND FRANKFORT. \ LARGE SUPPLY SHIP STRUCK . ■ 1 ■- 'lp BRITISH LOSE NINE BOMBERS (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 10 a.m.) LONDON, August 6. An Air Ministry communique, decribing Royal Air Force operations over enemy territory last night, says: “Mannehim and Frankfurt were'heavily attacked while factories and railways at Aachen and docks at Ostend were among other targets bombed during the night. Beaufort aircraft of the Coastal Command on patrol last night' bombed a large supply ship in the’en-emy-occupied port of Nantes. Two direct hits on the ship were observed.
“From these operations nine of our* bombers are missing.”—British Official Wireless.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 253, 7 August 1941, Page 5
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