NEW TARGET BOMBED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 84, 6 October 1941, Page 8

NEW TARGET BOMBED

IN THE "TOE" OF ITALY

MORE R.A.F. DEVASTATION

(Rec. 1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, .October 5,

The Royal Air Force (Middle East) communique reports that the Royal Air Force on October 3 successfully attacked for the first time an important railway junction, power station, and munition factory at "farina di Catanzaro, i^ the "toe" of Italy. '' The raid was made from a low- level, and hits were obtained on all the objectives, causing considerable damage. A stationary supply train at the junction was also machine-gunned. On the night of October 3-4 and on the following day Bardia harbour and nearby military objectives were heavily attacked. The South African Air Force participated iri these effective raids and also attacked an enemy camp near Solium. ; Numerous reconnaissanc.es and protective fighter patrols were made, but few engagements resulted, and there were none of a decisive character.. One Royal Air Force plane is missing from all the operations.; BELOW CHIMNEY TOP. One of the Royal Air Force pilots who participated in the daylight attack on Marina di Catanzaro had to lift a wing-tip bf his. plane over a factory chimney, on his way to bomb the power station. " The formation flew down some valleys to its objectives, and skimmed, the house-tops in,the villages. A sergeant, observer said they could see people in the streets. "They were shading their eyes as they looked up, and seemed to be expecting us to entertain them with some aerobatics. We were all quite low enough for them to see our markings, so they could not have thought we were Italians; but it did not seem to worry them." The bombers blew up a number of the.factories and buildings and created havoc among the warehouses, the power station, and the railway goods depot and siding.—B.O.W.