TONGUES OF FIRE
BLAZE IN COLOGNE FLAMES SHOW RAIDERS SPREAD OF DESTRUCTION BRITISH BOMBING (Elcc. Tib Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 3 p.m. RUGBY, Feb. 27. “It seemed as though the whole area had suddenly caught alight,” said one of the pilots in describing last night’s raid by the Bomber Command on Cologne. “Looking down we could see a patch of red with tongu.es of flame spreading outwards. The flames were so bright that they lit up three of our own bombers in the sky. My rear-gunner, as we had turned for home, kept calling me up on the inter-communi-cation telephone to tell me he could see more bombs going down and more fires starting." A German communique states: “The enemy dropped bombs in some districts in the west of Germany. Most fell on villages. There were some civilian casualties,’’
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20493, 1 March 1941, Page 9
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