DAYLIGHT ATTACK
MOLE AT ZEEBRUGGE NAZI TROOPS GUNNED NIGHT VISIT TO GERMANY RAIDING OVER ITALY (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 11.50 a.m. RUGBY, Jan. 12. An Air Ministry communique states that in daylight yesterday aircraft of the Bomber Command attacked a -r. or near the Dutch and Belgian coasts. Targets in a canal at Middleharmis were damaged. Two hits were obtained on the mole at Zeebrugge and troops drilling on a barrack square at Domburg were machine-gunned from a low level.
During the night bombers of the same command were active over Germany and northern Italy. Shipbuilding yards at Wiihelmshaven were attacked.
A small force went to Turin and scored direct hits on the Royal arsenal, causing one major and several minor explosions. Four fires and a heavy explosion occurred in another target area nearby. From all these operations two British planes are missing, but the crew of one of them are known to be safe.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20452, 13 January 1941, Page 5
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