HEAVY RAID ON RUHR
ROYAL AIR FORCE BOMBERS
FIGHTER SWEEPS OVER FRANCE (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright)
(Rec. 11p.m.) LONDON. April 9. A heavy attack on targets in the Ruhr was made by Royal Air Force bombers last night. The weather was bad and the results could not be observed. Mines were also laid in enemy waters. Twenty-one bombers are missing.
An Air Ministry communique states that aircraft of the Fighter Command made a number of sweeps over northern France yesterday. During one of these the wireless station near Ushant was attacked and damaged. Last evening. fighter bombers escorted by Typhoons and Spitfires bombed an enemy airfield at Triqueville, near Lc-Havre. Two of our fighters are missing. It is officially stated that American Flying Fortresses and Liberators destroyed 70 German aircraft in the daylight bombing attack on the Renault works on April 4 and during the raid on the Erla works in Antwerp on the following day. The Paris radio has announced that Abbeville is to be evacuated by the civilian population. Abbeville has an important airfield and large railway marshalling yards. It was last attacked by the Royal Air Force on Saturday.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23919, 10 April 1943, Page 5
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