OTHER FRIDAY RAIDS
NORTHERN FRANCE & SHIPS
RUGBY, January 15. The Air Ministry states that Beaufighters of the Coastal Command attacked enemy shipping off the Norwegian coast yesterday. Two mediumsized vessels were hit by torpedoes and several escorts were damaged. Three of our aircraft are missing. A joint Anglo-American communique states that a strong formation of heavy, medium, and light bomber and fighterbombers yesterday attacked military objectives in northern France. The weather was clear and good results were reported. Enemy opposition was weak. Nine enemy aircraft were destroyed by the heavy bombers and 14 by fighters. American Marauders and R.A.F., Dominion, and Allied medium, light, and fighter bombers also made a series of I attacks with fighter cover. Four enemy i aircraft were destroyed. From all these operations we lost three heavy bombers and three light bombers, also three fighter-bombers and seven fighters.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 13, 17 January 1944, Page 5
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142OTHER FRIDAY RAIDS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 13, 17 January 1944, Page 5
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