NEW BOMBERS USED IN OSLO RAID

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23754, 28 September 1942, Page 4

NEW BOMBERS USED IN OSLO RAID

QUISLING FORCED TO TAKE SHELTER (8.0. W.) RUGBY, Sept. 20. It is officially announced by the Air Ministry that during a rally of National Socialists at Oslo yesterday afternoon, four Royal Air Force bombers attacked Nazi headquarters in the city. At the time of the attack, a meeting of party leaders, was being held nearby. Bombs were dropped from about 1000 feet. Hits were seen op the Gestapo building. One of our aircraft is missing. The others returned safely. The German allegation that three of the attacking bombers were shot down confirms the effect of the attack. The Air Ministry’s News Service says the aircraft were “Mosquitos.” This is. the first time this new twinengined light bomber has been mentioned on operational duties. There .was brilliant sunshine over the Norwegian capital during the attack. A flight of FW 190’s attacked them a few miles from Oslo, when one aeroplane was lost. The remaining three aircraft bombed from a low level, and saw bombs strike the Gestapo building.

An Oslo agency message states that the bombers reached Oslo unobserved and that the sirens were sounded only when explosions rocked the university building, where the Quisling meeting was taking place. Quisling, with his bodyguard and audience, took to the cellars. The first alarm was at 5 p.m., and another sounded just under an hour later, ruining arrangements for a big parade of his followers before Quisling, which was timed for 6.30.