ALL CAME BACK
LATEST R.A.F. RAIDS
Enemy Targets Attacked Over
Wide Area Bri!-ish Omcial Wireless. Rec. 1.30 p.m. RUGBY : July 23. The Bomber Command attacked industrial targets at Frankfurt, Mannheim and other places in western Germany, and aerodromes in Northern France last night. None of our planes is missing. An earlier message declared: "It is officially stated that no enemy aircraft crossed our coasts to-day. "Seven Blenheim aircraft of the Bomber Command were out in the morning searching for enemy shipping off the coast of France and the Low Countries. A coastal vessel was sunk and another damaged. Enemy Fighters Encountered "Other Blenheims, escorted by a strong force of fighters, bombed objectives near St. Omer early this afternoon. Our fighters encountered a number of enemy fighters. They destroyed five. Our losses were five bombers and five fighters. The pilot of one fighter is safe."
An Admiralty communique stated that a German bomber, believed to be a Heinkel 111. was shot down last night by combined anti-aircraft fire from one of our convoys and its escort. The bomber attempted to attack the convoy, but was promptly shot down.
Nine enemy fighters were destroyed in British attacks on shipyards and aerodromes in north* em France yesterday. Six British machines were lost.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 173, 24 July 1941, Page 7
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