HEAVY RAID ON HELIGOLAND
ISLAND FORT OF GERMAN PORTS (8.0. W.) RUGBY. April 18. A great onslaught by nearly 1000 aircraft of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, with fighter escort, was made on Wednesday on Heligoland, the island fortress covering the sea ap* proaches to the north-west German .ports. The Island covers one-fifth of « square mile, and judging from the aze of the force engaged it must have had the heaviest pounding ever given an island of this size. The Germans evacuated all civilians uom the island more than a year ago, •nd at the time they claimed they had •nade it the strongest defended bastion “T me world. They also published Photographs showing great new defences carved into the rock and reinforced With concrete. Heligoland also 'ontems U-boat shelters. One pilot said there was hardly a ■Ware inch of the island not bombed.
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Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24546, 20 April 1945, Page 5
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