EXTENDED OPERATIONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 113, 8 November 1940, Page 7

EXTENDED OPERATIONS

R.A.F. BOMBERS

ENEMY OBJECTIVES

TWO PLANES MISSING

(British Official Wireless.) (Received November 8, 1.10 p.m.) RUGBY, November 7. An Air Ministry communique states that in the course of extended operations over Germany aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked works at Spandau, a suburb of Berlin, and railway junctions north-west of the city. Further attacks were made on the synthetic oil plants at Leuna and Homburg, factories near Dusseldorf, and railway yards and junctions at Halle, at Pretzsche on the Elbe, and near Cologne. Aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked enemy gun positions at Cap Gris-nez. During a daylight raid, which was carried out by R.A.F. aircraft yesterday morning heavy bombs were drop--* ped on a factory at Salzbergen, in north-west Germany. As each bomb hit its target greer flames shot up, which turned to red. • When the aircraft came away the factory was seen to be ablaze. Another British aircraft operating off the port of Den Helder, in northern Holland, spotted and bombed a convoy of eight or nine large motor-vessels, each averaging some 4000 tons, During yesterday's daylight operations an attack was made on Hamtsand aerodrome and a hangar was hit. Enemy aircraft on the ground were machine-gunned and one burst into flames. In an attack on Cuxhaven harbour bombs were dropped on a concentration of shipping.

Two of the British aircraft are missing.