RAILWAY TARGETS
RAID ON OSNABRUCK ENORMOUsTxPLOSIONS (British Official Wireless.) (1.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Aug. .10. Osnabruck, the west German city, which a strong force of bombers attacked last night is an industrial town with steelworks, railway workshops, and copper and aluminium refineries, but its strategic importance is as a railway centre. It is one of the main outlets from the Ruhr and the Ruhr-Bremen and the HollandHanover lines cross in the city. There are very large marshalling yards and the main lines and yards were hit. Air crews saw their bombs burst and fires start in the town. Several crews reported enormous explosions. A great box of more than 30 searchlights surrounded the target and flak came up and passed over the bombers as they flew in to drop their bombs.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 12 August 1942, Page 5
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