ROCKET LAUNCHING PLATFORMS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 282, 25 August 1944, Page 5

ROCKET LAUNCHING PLATFORMS

Enemy Preparations Found (Received August 24. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, August 24. The Germans had made preparations for three V2 launching platforms in a captured stone quarry beside the CaenFalaise road, says Reuter’s correspondent. Tunnels for the storage of projectiles were under 50ft. of solid rock, tj’here were also extensive subterranean workings north of Brettevillo sur Laize, in another quarry, and a whole wood. in the Caumont area has been fitted with blast bavs for the same purpose.

FLYING-BOMB DAMAGE

LONDON. August 23. A flying bomb made a direct hit on a workshop in southern England Just the employees were entering the building, and lire broke out. Most of the casual* ties were girls, including a number of A Hying bomb struck a block of Hats, killing a member of the Merchant Navy who was home <>u leave alter 3a years at sea It also killed his wife and injured his daughter, who is a Wren, and who had obtained leave to see her father. After a fierce tire had been extinguished, faint tappings were heard from under a pile of rubble which was all that was left of part of another block ot. flats. 'Two squads tunnelled from each side ot the debris toward each other and rescued two families, totalling seven, who are now in hospital.