RAID ON BERLIN

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1940, Page 12

RAID ON BERLIN

FIFTH IN NINE DAYS

SHALLOW-DIVE ATTACKS

POWER PLANTS HIT

(British Official Wireless.)

(Received September 5, 2 p.m.)

RUGBY, September 4. Tuesday night's raid by the Royal Air Force on Berlin was the fifth on the German capital in nine days. Details became available late on Wednesday evening of how aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked a series of military objectives both there and in other parts of German)'.

A power station situated in a Berlin suburb was repeatedly bombed in a series of shallow-dive attacks, and though low clouds prevented detailed observation of the results, the flash of many bomb bursts was seen within the target area.

Another power station was bombed from 2500 feet. When a gasworks was struck by high-explosive bombs a large fire broke out, accompanied by heavy clouds of smoke.

Aircraft of the second raiding force attacked an armament factory and the explosions of their bombs were followed soon afterwards by a great flash, which lit up low-lying clouds. Sticks of bombs were also dropped on a main railway line on the outskirts of Berlin and on lines near the capital. Wooded areas outside Berlin, including the Grunewald forest, were attacked shortly after midnight with high-explosive and incendiary bombs, with the object of setting fire .to an arms factory hidden beneath the trees. Two large fires which were started in a wood north of the city could still be seen by the crew of one aircraft 15 minutes after they had left for home. In the Grunewald bombs, dropped by one of the raiders caused two bright yellow explosions 150 yards apart. It was the third time this crew had raided Berlin.