TARGET A PEACH'

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 172, 23 July 1941, Page 7

TARGET A PEACH'

CAMP IN DENMARK Successful Attack By R.A.F. Sergeant-Pilot British omcial Wireless. Rec. 2 p.m. RUGBY, July 22. o*^ n A ir Ministry communique states: Last night the R.A.F. offensive against western Germany centred on Frankfurt and Maniineim. Industrial targets and communications in both cities were heavily bombed. Smaller forces of aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked docks at Cherbourg and Ostend. "Aircraft of the Fighter Command on a night offensive patrol attacked aerodromes in Northern France Early this morning Coastal Command aircraft bombed a German military camp and other objectives on the western coast of Denmark. "From all these operations one aircraft of the Bomber Command is missing." A fuller description of the attack on the German militarv camp in Denmark, given by the* Air Ministry, states that the camp was enveloped in smoke and flames after it was bombed before breakfast today. A sergeant-pilot said: "The country over which we were patrolling seemed perfectly innocent, but in the growing light I saw what seemed to be the outline of a building. I went down low to investigate and discovered a skilfully concealed camp. It was a peach of a target in the rays of the rising sun. "I let go a stick of bombs and saw them burst and debris shot up all over the place. Then flames appeared and spread until there was a large fire blazing. When we were j several miles away I looked back land saw the fire still burning i brightly."