BALTIC SEA BASE
STETTIN BOMBED BY R.A.F. LARGE FIRES LEFT BURNING OTHER PORTS ALSO ATTACKED (British Official Wireless.) (llec. 9.10 a.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 30. An Air Ministry communique states; “ Stettin, Germany’s important sea base on the Baltic; was attacked last night by a powerful' force of the Bomber Command. Large fires were left burning. Another strong force bombed the dock area at Hamburg. Subsidiary attacks were made on the docks at Cherbourg and Lc Havre. Eight of our bombers are missing. One of our aircraft shot down an enemy twin-engined fighter and drove off another in a damaged condition. “ The Fighter Command carried out offensive patrols over enemy aerodromes, from which two of our fighters are missing. In a dusk attack at_Lanuion, dispersal points and gun positions were raked with cannon and machinegun fire, and an enemy bomber was set on fire.”
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Evening Star, Issue 24004, 1 October 1941, Page 7
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