LONGEST RAID YET
HUGE FIRES START
WAVES OF ATTACKERS
• VARIOUS TARGETS HIT
LONDON, November 16.
A communique issued by the British Air Ministry describes in detail successful extensive operations undertaken yesterday and last night by the Coastal and Bomber Commands. Only two aircraft have not 'returned.
Hamburg provided the most important targets of the night.
The raid on Hamburg began soon after nightfall and continued till 5.30 ajn. In the words of the Air Ministry news service, the second largest city of Germany had one of its longest and heaviest air bombardments. The British raids on Hamburg hitherto were almost exclusively confined to the dock area, but last night's objectives were more widespread. The first attack began shortly before 7 p.m. in "the light of a full moon; visibility was excellent and a slighfr haze which lay over the city did not conceal the great riverside railway sorting yards in the Billwarder and Moorfleth districts, which were repeatedly bombed by relays of planes for nearly two hours. Attacking singly from different directions and varying heights, the
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 7
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177LONGEST RAID YET Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 121, 18 November 1940, Page 7
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