HAVOC BY R.A.F.
Effect On German Industry
RAIDS SUMMED UP IN FIGURES (By Telegraph— Press Assn.—Copyright.) Received August 22, 8.30 p.m. LONDON, August 2 I. The aeronautical writer of the “Daily Mail” says semi-official figures indicate that in the three months since May 10, when bombs took the place of leaflets, the Royal Air Force has made 598 raids on 178 places in Germany and 206 places in the German-occupied territory. In all these operations, in which they have flown over three million miles, our airmen have dropped approximately 158,000 bombs on military objectives, most of them inside Germany. It is known for certain that German industrial areas aie devastated, while the damage to her oil depots, railways, docks, canals and shipping and specially to aerodromes and aeroplanes has been enormous. Some of the objectives have been bombe as many as 50 times.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 282, 23 August 1940, Page 9
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