BOMBING PATTERN

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1943, Page 5

BOMBING PATTERN

CONFUSING THE ENEMY Rec' 11 a.m. RUGBY, August 18. Between 2500 and 3000 sorties were flown by Allied aircraft during attacks on the Continent- from Britain and North Africa yesterday and last night. In giving these figures in London today, a commentator emphasised the severity of the attacks on different targets by aircraft of the different commands.

There are so many different targets in the news that thevpattern and pur-pose'-of the- series' of offensive operations often escape notice. The 24 hours' operations, for example, when St. Pol, Calais, Poix, Lille, Vendeville, Woensdreeht, Bryassud, Schweinfurt, Regensburg, Berlin, Istres, Salon, and Letube, as well as many railway and other subsidiary targets in France, the Low Countries, and north-west Germany were visited, indicated the farflung nature of our offensive,. aiming principally at the destruction of enemy aircraft and components and auxiliary equipment, both completed and in various stages of production. The many sweeps, helped to perplex and confuse the enemy and divert his attention from attacks on major targets, at the same time as damaging lesser targets.

The commentator said that the attack on Regensburg was carried out against very stubborn opposition and was a particularly fine example of the U.S.A.A.F. daylight precision bombing technique.—B.O.W.