DODGING THE MOON
ALL OVER BY 8.30 P.M.
LONDON,, December 17.
The attack was timed for the earliest possible moment in order to beat the moon, and by 8.30 p.m. (the time of moonrise) the bombers had turned for home. Though some pilots saw no fighter aircraft over Berlin, others had things a different way. One Lancaster, after an engagement with a fighter, went on to its target on three engines, with one wing and a petrol tank holed. Arj.other pilot described an attack by a rocket gun. He- saw the Germans firing at him "horizontally from several thousand yards away." "We.dived," he said, "and saw nothing more." The track. of the bombers across the German capital was marked by a trail of fire exactly parallel to the line of the attack. Reconnaissance pilots have been over Berlin daily since November 18, but photographs show unbroken cloud. It was the same last night, but the pathfinder flares showed clearly through the clouds. Reports from Stockholm say that-the centre of Berlin was heavily battered. A Stockholm report says that the raid took place only a few hours after Goebbels had thanked the air defence heads of the city for the way they had cleared up Berlin after the last raid. Targets in northern France and western Germany were attacked last night by the R.A.F. ,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 147, 18 December 1943, Page 7
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223DODGING THE MOON Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 147, 18 December 1943, Page 7
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