TURIN ATTACKED
ROYAL ARSENAL R.A.F. ALSO MAKES RAIDS ON CONTINENT DRILLING TROOPS MACHINE GUNNED Rugby, Jan. 12 An Air Ministry communique states that in daylight yesterday aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked a number of targets on, or near, the Dutch and Belgium coasts.
Targets in the canal at Middleharmis were damaged. • Two hits were obtained on the mole at Zeebrugge, and troops drilling in a barrack square at Domburg were ma-chine-gunned from a low level. During the night bombers of the same command were active over Germany and Northern Italy. Shipbuilding yards at Wilhelmshaven were attacked. A small force went to Turin and scored direct hits on the Royal Arsenal, causing one major and several minor explosions. Four fires and a heavy explosion occurred on another target nearby. From all these operations two British planes are missing, but the crew of one of them is known to be safe.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13238, 14 January 1941, Page 5
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