KIEL DEVASTATED
GREAT FIRES IN TOWN HUGE BOMB TONNAGE FIVE-HOURS’ BATTERING (Elec. Tel. Copyright-—Unitea Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Heed. 11 a.m. RUGBY. April 8. An Air Ministry communique states that aircraft of the Bomber Command last night made a heavy and successful attack in perfect weather on Kiel.
Great fires raged in the town while hundreds of tons of very powerful bombs caused destruction in the submarine and Baltic yards and docks.
The raid lasted nearly five hours and later aircraft reported that smoke was covering the whole of the northern half of Kiel Bay.
Attacks were also made with good results on Bremerhaven and Emden. Four British planes are missing.
During daylight yesterday planes of the Bomber Command bombed objectives in Denmark and the Low Countries. Shipping in the North Sea and tlie Cherbourg Roads were also attacked by both the Coastal and Bomber Commands, while the Fighter Command machine-gunned aerodromes and lorries in Northern France, indieting casualties on the enemy. One aircraft of the Bomber Command is missing.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20526, 9 April 1941, Page 7
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