HEAVILY BOMBED
FRENCH MOTOR WORKS ITALIAN POWER PLANTS NIGHT RAID BY R.A.F. (11 a.m.) LONDON, July 16. Royal Air Force Bomber Command Halifaxes last night attacked the Peugeot motor works at Mont Behard, 10 miles south of Belfort. The weather was clear. Preliminary reports indicate that the attack was concentrated and effective. The Peugeot works specialise in making two-ton trucks, employ about 10,000 workmen and turn out between 6000 and 8000 •rucks yearly, an output second only to the Renault works. It has become even more important to the German war effort.
Lancasters attacked electric transformers and switching stations in the north of Italy. Intruders attacked airfields and railway targets in France, Germany and the Low Counties'. Seven of our bombers are missing.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21149, 17 July 1943, Page 3
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