SUNK OR DAMAGED
LARGE ENEMY TONNAGE
ONE WEEK'S OFFENSIVE
LONDON, April 30
The Bomber Command, waging an unheralded offensive in the battle of the North Sea and the Atlantic, in daylight operations between April 17 and 23 sank or damaged 42,000 tons of German shipping off the coasts of Germany, Holland, France, and Norway.
Aircraft of the Bomber Command on the morning of March 31 sighted two 3000- vton tankers west of Le Havre, presumably going to refuel submarines in the Atlantic, with flakships ahead and astern. Ignoring the guns, the bombers dived to within 200 feet and made a direct hit on the first oil tanker, from which came clouds of steam and smoke, and three bombs directly hit the second tanker. The planes again attacked and swept the decks with machine-gun fire, leaving the tankers enveloped in billowing smoke.
Other aircraft did not hesitate to attack even heavily-armed ships protected by destroyers and flakships and escorted by fighters.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 101, 1 May 1941, Page 9
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