WAR IN THE AIR

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 March 1943, Page 5

WAR IN THE AIR

R.A.F. ATTACK.

LONDON, March 5

The Royal Air Force was , again over western Germany last night. At dusk last evening Mosquito bombers attacked railway centres in France, all of the aircraft returning. There was no enemy air activity over England last night. Last night R.A.K bombers laid mines in enemy waters and bombed objectives in western Germany. One of ours is missing.

LONDON’S DEFENCES

LONDON, March 5. Unless it can send 10 times the number of planes it did on Wednesday night, the Luftwaffe will never be able again seriously to damage London, says tne Mails Aeronautical Correspondent. on an observation tour, adds the correspondent, he found a great curtain or fire raised over London, without a single gap on the whole way to the sea It was a roof of steel comparable with the heaviest German de fences. The anti-aircraft command from the centre of Londoft to the coast certainly achieved one important Object. It impressed on the Luftwaffe that London is no longer open to serious air attack, except on a long-term costly plan, involving large concentrations ol highly trained bomber squadrons, which the Luftwaffe needs urgently elsewhere.

AWARDS TO NEW ZEALANDERS

WELLINGTON. March 5. The King has approved the award of the D.S.C. to Lieutenant Lewis King, R.N.Z.N.V.R., whose wife is Mrs. E. F. King, of Auckland The award is for bravery against fbe enemy while on escort duty with a convoy to the north oi Russia. The DSC will also be granted to Lieutenant George Lawrence Hogben R N Z.N.. a temporary instructor. His wife is M.rs. A. Hogben, .Moorlands, Yorkshire. This award is also lor bravery in the protection of a convoy. At the outbreak of the war Lieutenant Hogben was a New Zealand Rhodes Scholar at New College, Oxford.