RAIDS EVERY NIGHT
(British Official Wireless.) (Received June 21, noon.) RUGBY, June 20. The Air Ministry states: "Large-scale ' operations by our bombers continue j nightly. Last night the objectives were munition factories, oil refineries, bridges, marshalling yards, ammunition trains, and aerodromes. "In spite of intense anti-aircraft fire targets spread over a large area were attacked. These included Lunen, Ham,1 Bielefeld, Munster, Duren, Schwerte, \ Euskirchen, Munchengladbach, Hamborn, Emmerich, Hamburg, Brunsbuttel, and Norderney. One of our aircraft failed to return. On the way home one of our bombers engaged and seriously damaged an enemy seaplane. Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, co-operating with the Coastal Command, attacked a military storehouse at Ymuiden and Scheveningen and an aerodrome at Borkum. At all these objectives fires were started. A bridge at Lexal was also hit."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 8
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131RAIDS EVERY NIGHT Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 146, 21 June 1940, Page 8
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