GERMAN TARGETS
BRITISH PUNISHMENT AERODROMES AND DOCKS INDUSTRIAL PLANTS FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS(Eire. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wiroloss.) Reed. noon. RUGBY, Nov. 25. An Air Ministry communique states that early on Sunday morning aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked the aerodrome at Christiansand. Other aircraft attacked the harbour of Hook of Holland. Fleet Air Arm machines operating with the Coastal Command bombed the docks at Boulogne. Last night the Bomber Command again concentrated its attacks on shipyards and industrial plants in Hamburg. Many fires and explosions followed the bombing. Other targets last night included the Altona gasworks, the Wilhelms haven docks, a chemical factory at Harburg-Wilhelmsburg, part of Boulogne, the Den Helder dockyard, antiaircraft and searchlight positions and enemy aerodromes and seaplane bases. One British machine is missing.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20414, 26 November 1940, Page 7
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