NIGHT OPERATIONS
HAVOC FIGHTERS' WORK
(Rec. noon.) RUGBY, August 12. The Air Ministry reports that in spite of bad weather bombers last night attacked objectives in the Krefeld, Rheydt, and Munich-Gladbach areas in | west Germany. Docks at Rotterdam | were also bombed. The Fighter Command attacked enemy aejrodromes in northern France and the Low Countries during the night. None of our aircraft are missing from these operations. The attacks on the aerodromes in northern France and Holland were : carried out by American-built Havoc fighters. Both buildings and runways were bombed. ; At one aerodrome in France large fires were started, and were later bombed by another crew, .resulting in ! two more fires. Fires were also start|ed at one Dutch aerodrome. —8.0.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 8
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119NIGHT OPERATIONS Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 8
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