AERIAL OFFENSIVE

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 December 1944, Page 5

AERIAL OFFENSIVE

HANOVER AND KASSAL

RUGBY, December 15. United States Headquarters state that industrial and rail targets in the Hanover-Kassel areas of Germany were attacked to-day by over 650 Fortresses. The heavy bombers were escorted by over 550 Mustangs and Thunderbolts. All bombing was done under adverse weather conditions. Both Hanover and Kassel are keypoints of Germany’s battered overburdened rail routes to the Western Front and Kassel is a tank production centre. ROCKET BOMB VICTIMS. LONDON, December 15. A two-storey house was struck by a V bomb recently. Rescue workers and firemen began hauling rubble from the house when a whole side oi it fell on them. A couple of the rescuers were able to leap aside, but the others were buried. Several people were killed and others were trapped when a V bomb fell in a working class district in Southern England. According to the Berlin radio, the V2 bomb has a new explosive material in it. The composition of this is not known to Germany’s enemies. This material, says the radio, is becoming standard for all the longrange weapons that Germany is producing for the future. The radio added: The V2 takes little more than the one and a-quarter man hours necessary to produce the number oi bombs giving an equivalent explosive effect.