BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS

Evening Star, Issue 24002, 29 September 1941, Page 3

BOMBERS AND FIGHTERS

OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS CONTINUED LARGE NUMBER OF ENEMY PLANES DESTROYED (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 27. An Air Ministry communique says: “ Though unfavourable weather continued to hamper operations, aircraft of tions to hamper operations, aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked objectives at Cologne and elsewhere in Western Germany last night. The docks at Calais and Dunkirk were also bombed. One of our aircraft is missing. The latest official report of to-day’s Royal Air Force offensive operations over Northern France states that 21 enemy fighters were destroyed, and 14 Royal Air Force fighters were lost, but the pilots of three are safe. None of our bombers is missing.

On Friday afternoon aircraft of the Fighter Command attacked four enemy minesweepers off Dunkirk, while both the escorting anti-aircraft ships wore damaged. Two of the minesweepers were set on fire. Other fighter aircraft on an offensive patrol sank a small patrol ship off Cherbourg. None of our aircraft is missing.

There was night air activity over Britain again on a very small scale. The official communique states: “ There was a little enemy activity. Only a few bombs wore dropped. Some houses were damaged, and at one place in East Anglia a small number of people were injured.”