ENEMY LAND TRANSPORT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 3, 3 July 1943, Page 5

ENEMY LAND TRANSPORT

ATTACKED BY R.A.F. PLANES Rec. 10.50 a.m. RUGBY, July 2. Typhoon fighters and -Boston bombers continued the attack on enemy transport in northern France and Belgium today. A Czech squadron-leader flying a Typhoon saw a passenger train near St. Omer. He was barred by a strict rule from attacking civilian passenger trains, but feeling that this was no ordinary train he fired a burst into a field alongside it. The train stopped with a jerk, the doors were flung open, and out poured German soldiers, scattering into ditches and hedgerows. Two Typhoons then- turned their guns on the locomotive and left it "steaming well." Another pair of Typhoons spent 22 minutes over the Brussels and Ghent area and severely damaged four locomotives, scattered two parties of work- j ers loading goods trains, and sprayed flak cars with bullets. One locomotive was attacked a second time on the re-! turn trip. Hames 100 feet high were reported , by other Typhoons after a cannon attack on an oil tsorage tank near Ijmuiden. The pilots also silenced a ground defence battery. Bostons "from nought feet" bombed railway lines at the entrance to Ghent station and near a train at Thielt, an engine shed and a railway junction at Lille, and the junction and engine sheds at Courtrai.—B.O.W: