LONGEST FLIGHT OF WAR

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 124, 19 February 1941, Page 7

LONGEST FLIGHT OF WAR

Leaflets For South Poland BRITISH OPERATIONS RUGBY. February 17. (British Official Wireless.i Indications that Royal Air .Force bombers have made their longest operational flight of the war ate given in an Air Ministry communique which states that leaflets were dropped over the Cracow and Katowice areas of Boland ott Satuiciav night. The distance from the bomber stations in England to Katowice or Cracow and back is 1750 miles. The previous longest Hight made by R.A.F. bombers was the IGOO-mile round journey to and from Danzig railway station, which was bombed last November. When crossing the Alps to make raids on northern Italy R.A.F. machines travelled a total distance ol 1200 miles.

The text, of Hie Air .Ministry communique reads: “During daylight yesterday aircraft of the Bomber Command, operating singly, attacked a number of objectives in enemy-occu-pied territory. At 1 lellevoetsluis bombs were seen to hit the quay and a vessel moored alongside. off the Dutch coast and targets at. Zeebrugge Middolburg, and Den Heider were also attacked. On, Saturday night, machines of the Bomber Command dropped leaflets in the Katowice and Cracow areas of Poland."