COLOGNE AND DUISBERG
ANOTHER R.A.F. RAID
RENEWED DEFENCE ( .
BY GERMANS
(Rec. 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, Aug. 19. An Air Ministry communique dealing with night activity by the R.A.F. states that Cologne and Duisberg were again attacked by Bomber Command aircraft last night. The weather was fine, and a great number of heavy bombs were seen to burst in both towns. Many large fires were left blazing. Another force effectively bombed the docks at Dunkirk. Eight aircraft are missing. Fighter Command aircraft on offensive patrol attacked enemy airfields in occupied territory during the night. "Once more the Germans appear to have brought up new defence for the Ruhr and the Rhineland, the Air Ministry news service states, in describing last night's R.A.F. attack. One bomber was held over Cologne by searchlights for a whole hour while there was fierce anti-aircraft fire from both sides of the river. But the weather was on the side of the attackers, and they dropped load after load of incendiary iand high-explosive bombs on factories and railways in Cologne and Duisberg "We played our usual game of hide and seek with the searchlights and the anti-aircraft fire," said a rear gunner, "and didn't let the fireworks put us off. As we turned sharply away from Cologne after the bombing 1 could see our own fires adding to the light of those that were there before." There were as mar.y large fires in Duisberg as in Cologne, including a great oil fire on the west bank of the .river opposite the inland docks. It !was burning explosively, with a heavy jcjoud of black smoke over it.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 44, 20 August 1941, Page 7
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