WAR IN THE AIR

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 November 1943, Page 5

WAR IN THE AIR

R.A..F. RAIDS CONTINUED

LONDON, November 16

Royal Air Force Mosquitoes raided over' Western Germany last night. Two did not ■■return. Ono fighter is missing from sweeps across the Channel.

Fighter Command aeroplanes yesterday attacked targets in Northeastern France and concentrated on enemy shipping and communications. A tug was sunk on the Seine, and five locomotives were attacked in the Loire area. Two enemy motor vessels were seen off the north-west tip of France, and one was left on fire. Considerable anti-aircraft fire was me;..

SERIES OF ATTACKS

RUGBY, November 16

It is officially announced that “large formations of United States Eighth Air Force Fortresses and Liberators successfully attacked targets in Norway to-day. The mines at Knaben and the power station at Rkukan wera the objectives. Operating without escort, the heavy bombers destroyed six enemy aircraft. Two bombers are missing.” Typhoons, to-day, struck . twice without loss at coastal targets in northern France. This morning Typhoon fighter-bombers dived through a cloud gap to attack seaplane hangars at Laiivec Poulmic, near .Brest, and this afternoon, near Le Havre, a New Zealand Typhoon fighter squadron left an armed coaster in flames and sinking with the stern under water. A second vessel was loft in flames with the superstructure shot away, Two trains were damaged by Spitfires on patrol in. Montreuil area, and Mosquitoes bombed a spirit plant near St. Nazaire. BOMBS ON ENGLAND LONDON?" November 16. German raiders were active before dawn on Tuesday over the south and south-west of England. High explosive bombs and incendiaries fell over a scattered area. A number of enemy planes sharply and intensively raided one southwest town, where fires were started. Some casualties were caused. The attack was concentrated mainly against the residential area.

‘BLACK-OUT

LONDON, November 15. Street lights are being prepared throughout Britain on Mr Churchill’s orders, so that “lights up” order may be given by him on the night of the “cease fire,” says the “Daily Mail.” The decision to do this, says the paper, was reached at a War Cabinet meeting on the Prime Minister’s suggestion.

The Minister for Home Security (Mr Herbert Morrison) said there was substantial no foundation for the report that the black-out might be greatly modified. CANADIAN SQUADRON.

RUGBY, November 15. The first R.C.A.F. unit to cross the Atlantic complete in personnel and operational training ready for battle, has arrived in the United Kingdom from Canada. This is the ’Wildcat Fighter Squadron, which chalked up thousands of operational hours in Arctic patrols, .and off the east coast of Canada. U.S.A. GUN-POWER WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. Recent firepower developments have made American fighting aircraft the most formidably armed aircraft in the skies, said Frank Wolfe, Chief of the Army Air Forces Material Command, writing in the official American Expeditionary Force journal, ’ “Air Force.” “We are literally designing guns and putting wings on them,” he said. “The gunners of out’ bombers are now using . computing sights, which force the enemy’s fighters lo remain at a range from which their 'firepower is ineffective.”