FLIGHT DESCRIBED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 79, 30 September 1941, Page 7

FLIGHT DESCRIBED

NEW ALPS CROSSING

GREAT ELECTRIC STORM

(Rec. noon!) RUGBY,.. Sc^. 2H. ' ' Stirlings ' and Wellingtons • r'-erc in 5 the force which attacked e-BrS?ln re> in ; Italy last night, states thoifemaMlnisttv < news service. A Welling- c * iot ■ made a carefully-plann^i aVj,u: fro& a ! low level described *\>k: lovi;' :iour-ri.«y. j and the bombing of a large -actoiry in'i Genoa. ■<■•=■; "Going out it v.'sv; r/K^-ulH'hx a\id we , saw the coast, t; -■ i: "■"-;> ■'■"■•> f^e i Alps clouds be;^;.:v v,-- bv-ki' -,p..j ha ; said. "We shkv-^l -:\ r\: .---;*u-j.e storm over Mor:'. IHsilC. vV<- -:o,A:a ;■?& the great zJ.Kzan r^h^s of "When 'ye so;; l-> G?;:.-,-. r ye stayed there for an hour n^d -r-nAL flying round ai be' , • 200^ \rd 3003 feet. Bombers at '•• -iroppin^ flares round us -md ;.<„ ■ "> our Wellington. .'■■'■. "Theie wfi?; k ~:-' : of heavy flak and a f^* .nim-nh . nght flak. Thera' rv-o T.-ir;-rf. -■ i cloud.over Gew-a ■■".■:'■ a r= '-tiJ-i" ',«-k of cloud had coT"i& 'K--* :.-v;-;v tlis ivioon, but we picked i o ;i -..voi pinpoint for th" first run up. ■pACTOP.Y 'ON FIRE. "O'jr-b^irjb-Eir.H:?" decided to' drop a ' j>w "nfondiarlf:.. A cautious-Scotsman, ■-,o vr:s not to put all his bombs ! --Tne incendiaries went off with a n;:,b right ?u tht=. factory, and soon you |r<:>aM s<*; ;]ames coming out of the [.'•■■.r>Ku- .nd viadows. The whole of one ] aril o.; t;-..r iactory—it was an enor\rn.rnxß, r.'-iri— was litup. | ?Y^' aw nothing of the Alps on the !-- v-- iourney. We crossed in pitch- '■ ■-■■]*:'< darkness and cloud. Until we '< y -• i. hack to the base we had only one '^i'lose of the ground." '■" •- New Zealand squadron leader deir,:dbed how he flew "just about 400 1 j-fset above the summit of Mont Blanc' 1 There was plenty of light at Genoa, he said. Flares were dropping all over the place. "Coming back, it was pitch dark all the way. We could just make out the peaks of the Alps, but'after that we did not see a thing until we came out of cloud over the aerodrome."—B.O.W.