ON A LARGE SCALE
OFFENSIVE AIR OPERATIONS.
NOTHERN FRANCE AND BELGIUM.
SHIP HIT OFF STAVANGER. (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright). (Rec. 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, Jan.,22. An Air Ministry communique states: “Offensive operations on a large scale were carried out early this .afternoon over Northern France and Belgium. The Bomber Command attacked oil installations at Terneuzen, near Ghent, and airfields at Maupertus, in the Cherbourg Peninsula, Abbeville and St Omer. Many squadrons of the. Royal Air Force, United States, Air Force, Dominion and Allied fighters also took part. Six of our fighters are missing. .
“Soon after midday to-day a Royal Australian Air Force Hampden scored a torpedo hit on an enemy supply ship off Stavanger, Norway.”—British Official Wireless. Factories in the Ruhr were the targets for the Royal Air Force bombing raid last night. Large fires were started but other results were obscured bycloud..
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 88, 23 January 1943, Page 3
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