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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 138, 12 June 1943, Page 6

the Schneider works at le Creusot, 300 miles inland; only one bomber was lost. A few days later, as a contribution to the Eighth Army's offensive in Africa, home-based Lancasters did a 1350-mile round trip to Milan and back, most of the outward journey being flown in daylight over enemy territory. . The Lancaster's crowning achievement up to the present, was in driving home one of the most spectacular strokes of the war —the destruction last month of the Ruhr dams. The capabilities of the big Avro bomber that has now flown from Britain to New Zealand via "America, the Pacific, and Australia are such that there appear to be no limits to the versatility of its coups that are helping to break, slowly but surely, the resistance of a desperate Germany.