GREAT DAMAGE
AIR RAIDS ON EAST PRUSSIA. AIRCRAFT PLANT DESTROYED.; OTHER TARGETS PLASTERED. (N.Z. Press Association-Copyright.) (Rec. 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 10. Photographs show the virtual destruction of the East Prussian aircraft assembly plant, and other widespread damage as the result of the United States Army Air Force raids against Anglam, Gdynia, banzig and Marienburg last Friday, announces the United States commander (Brigadier-Gen-eral Anderson). The German liner Stuttgart and three other ships were set on fire, and docks, workshops and railway yards were hit. ( At Gdynia an aircraft component factory was severely damaged and many buildings were left burning furiously. s At Anklam, bombs several times hit the oil storage tanks, buildings, stores, dumps and railway communications. At Danzig, bursting bombs completely .blanketed the aircraft factory. At Marienburg, the raiders destroyed a number of grounded planes and plant, and are believed to have accounted for about half the assembly of all Focke Wulf 109’s.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 63, Issue 310, 11 October 1943, Page 3
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