GREAT RAID ON HANOVER
One Of Heaviest Of War
LONDON. September 23. Last night the R.A.F. raided the German city of Hanover in very great strength. It was one of the heaviest air raids of the war. Preliminary reports indicate that the. attack was concentrated into 30 minutes and very large fires were left burning. Subsidiary attacks were made on Oldenburg, 27 miles from Bremen, and on Emden, the terminus of the DortmundEms canal. Twenty-six bombers arc missing. Hanover, with a population of half a million, is one of the big railway centres linking Germany and the Low Countries.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 309, 24 September 1943, Page 7
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