OFF DUTCH COAST
ENEMY VESSELS ATTACKED Rec. 12.30 p.m. RUGBY, October 5. E-boats. R-boats, merchant vessels, and possibly. tank landing craft were attacked off the Dutch coast and islands on Wednesday night by R.A.F. Wellingtons and Avengers. . Several enemy vessels were damaged. All of our aircraft returned.
Twenty 2501b bombs were dropped yesterday.by Polish Spitfires on a concentration of barges.on the River Maas and eight of them found their targets Rocket Typhoons destroyed strongpoints which had impeded our troops in the advance in the Leopold Canal area. Canal shipping, railway bridges and enemy rail and road transport were also attacked both in Holland and along the western German border < In a week fighters of the R.AF lactical Air Force have destroyed 120 enemy, aircraft and damaged 79.— o.kJ.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 84, 6 October 1944, Page 6
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