RAIDS ON GERMANY
LULL DUE TO WEATHER
LONDON, September 26,
The aviation correspondent of the "Daily Mail" says the lull in the Royal Air Force bombing of Germany in the past week has been solely due to weather conditions on the Continent. Royal Air Force heavy bombers will again pound Germany when conditions permit.
The important railway' yard at Hazebrouck was bombed last Saturday by Blenheims with a fighter escort, and bombs burst just where they would be most effective. There were several direct hits on the point where the railway tracks converge to form a bottleneck as well as on a large engine shed .and on rolling stock.
Much damage was done to the lines and workshops which form the east and south boundary of the shipyards, and bombs burst on and near oil storage tanks, some of which had been wrecked in earlier attacks on the shipyards.
On Saturday Blenheims also made a vigorous attack on the docks at Cherbourg. A stick of bombs burst on the submarine shelters on the west side of the basin and others burst on harbour craft.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 77, 27 September 1941, Page 9
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