COLOGNE BLASTED
20-MINUTE BLITZ
100 TWO-TON BOMBS
R.A.F. CAUSES HAVOC
(By Telegraph—-Press Assn.—Copyright.) (British Official Wireless.) (10.30 a.m.) RUGBY, Feb. 4. The Air Ministry states: “Our heavy bombers last night attacked Cologne. A great weight of high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped in 20 minutes. Five bombers are missing. The bombs dropped included 100 of 40001 b. each. It was Cologne’s onehundred' and twelfth raid. The Berlin radio says that British, bombers late last evening .attacked western Germany. Civilian losses were slight. Some damage was caused to buildings by bombs and fire.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21009, 4 February 1943, Page 4
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93COLOGNE BLASTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21009, 4 February 1943, Page 4
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