OIL PLANT RAID
LEUNA BATTERED R.A.F. “HEAVIES” OVER VIOLENT EXPLOSIONS LONDON, Dec. 7. The R.A.F. Bomber Command sent over 1300 aircraft to Germany on Wednesday night, with two marshal.ing yards and one important _synthetic oil plant as their main objectives. Bomber Command’s objectives lasi night were the Leuna synthetic oil piant near Leipzig, the railway ceniies of Osnabruck and Giessen and Berlin. The weather was very bad when -about 500 Lancasters out of the 135 u : .i craft despatched by the R.AiF. on ..'ednesday night attacked the Leuna ..ant near Leipzig. The pilots had ,o climb or lose height at various ntervais to avoid icing, clouds, elec- . .cal storms and snow. Over the ..get there was unbroken cloud, bui lie markers were plentiful and well rouped. There were several viov.nt explosions and the crews saw . glow cl hies for a long time. --.ns wnLi'i urn Germans ha. . 1.14,111 from -iiuiistrial cities to dear th.s target were in action. Fighters axsu aockfcd to -he defence. A reconnaissance aircraft was ovei .he works an hour later and the pilot reported that large fires were burning, .with explosions in the midst ol them.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21583, 9 December 1944, Page 5
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190OIL PLANT RAID Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21583, 9 December 1944, Page 5
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