WIPING OUT HAMBURG
R.A.F. Strikes Hard Again
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.)
Rec 11 a.m. LONDON, August 3. Bomber Command planes, in great strength, attacked Hamburg and other targets in north-west Germany last night. The pilots experienced heavy weather, but despite this and the greatly, strengthened anti-aircraft defences, they pressed home their attack.
The raid is summed up briefly by the Air Ministry, 4 which says that through cloud and thunder aircraft of Bomber Command continued the Battle of Hamburg, a battle greater in intensity and ferocity than the Battle of the Euhr.
Last night's bomb load is described as "great." The bombers flew in a violent thunderstorm and one pilot said he could not tell the anti-aircraft fire from the lightning.
Other bombers raided the industrial Euhr, and Mosquitoes attacked airfields and other targets in north-west Germany and Holland. From the night's operations, 30 bombers and two fighter' are missing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1943, Page 5
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WIPING OUT HAMBURG
Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 30, 4 August 1943, Page 5
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