BREST DOCKS BOMBED
FIERCE R.A.F. ATTACK NAZI CRUISER. IN PORT (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 11 a.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 25. An Air Ministry communique states: “Last night aircraft / of the Bomber and Coastal Commands attacked the docks at Brest vyhere an enemy cruiser of the Hippetr class was known to be lying. Despite very heavy antiaircraft fire the attack was pressed home and the target was straddled in all directions by many sticks of heavy bombs. From this operation none of our aircraft is missing.”
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19410226.2.81
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20490, 26 February 1941, Page 7
Word Count
84BREST DOCKS BOMBED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20490, 26 February 1941, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in