NAZIS BLUFFED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 5

NAZIS BLUFFED

AIR ATTACK ON STETTIN

NERVY ABOUT BERLIN

Rec. 12.20 p.m. RUGBY, January 6. , , Alarmed at the danger to Berlin, the Luftwaffe again sent fighter packs to r defend the capital last night, leaving the door wide open for a great force of .">■- Lancasters, with a smaller number of , Halifaxes, to get through to the Baltic port and industrial town or Stettin. "'•'• Judging from what happened, said •>. an R.A.F. station commander, the Ger- " mans become so rattled whenever • •-bombers approach that Berlin comes "-first and the rest a long way behind. ' "Over 1000 tons of bombs were dropped on Stettin. The Germans seemed to 1 be hopelessly confused by a light force of Mosquitoes which bombed Berlin a

quarter of an hour before the attack on Stettin, which is less than 100 miles from Berlin, and at almost any point in the last stages of the journey the main force might have turned and . made for the capital. * ' German fighters started to arrive over Stettin as the attack finished. The . bombers had brilliant moonlight over

.the target. Pathfinders dropped visual • markers, illuminating the target, almost "as brilliantly as daylight, and then laid target indicators. Flak was insufficient to interfere with the bombing, and Stettin was well alight, said a pilot. All the fires seemed to be in the middle of the target area, and the glow on the clouds was seen over 150 miles away.—B.O.W.