WAR IN THE AIR

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1944, Page 5

WAR IN THE AIR

COLOGNE WORKS BOMBED

LONDON, October 26.

Royal Air Force Lancasters attacked chemical works north of Cologne on Wednesday night. American night fighter pilots- report that the lights in the Rhineland cities of Cologne, Dusseldorf, and Duisburg are no longer showing. Royal Air Force night fighters on Wednesday night shot down two Heinkel 111 flying bomb launchingaircraft into the North Sea. N.Z. airman’Fphotography LONDON, October 27. A New .Zealand reconnaissance pilot, Flight Lieutenant Owen Chapman D.F.C. (Timaru) is making a habit of being “in at the death,” says Reuter. When the five-squadron attack was made on Dordrecht, he watched and photographed the damage almost before the smoke died away to reveal the complete destruction of vital buildings in the target area. Among Flight Lieutenant Chapman's recent similar achievement is the photographing or two Bomber Command assaults leading to the flooding of Walcheren which now extends over fifty of the total sixty square miles in this area. He also photographed the bombing of a bridge by Typhoons while the attack was actually proceeding.