R.A.F. RAIDS

Grey River Argus, 18 November 1942, Page 2

R.A.F. RAIDS

LONDON, Nov. 16. Fighter Command aircraft made a number of small-scale raids on targets in occupied territory, where trains were bombed and machinegunned. . Barges of the Bruges-Os-tend Canal were bombed. Hampdens hit a medium-sized enemy supply ship off the Norwegian coast, it is officially stated in London. . Warrant Officer R. C. Dunn of Kaipara, and Flying Officer D. G. Nilsson of Napier, piloted two of the three Hampden bombers which yesterday torpedoed and left sinking a medium-sized enemy supply ship off the west coast of Norway. A flakship hit and damaged two of our planes. ~ . ' The Air Ministry states: Our fighters and fighter-bombers including aircraft of the Army Co-operation Command, made a number of attacks to-day on railways and other targets in the coastal districts of occupied France and Belgium. In one of these a German transport aircraft was intercepted and destroyed. Mosquitoes of the Bomber Command today attacked objectives in Western Germany. None of our aircraft is missing from these operations. The Ministry of Home Security announced that 229 civilians were killed or missing, believed killed, in air raids on Britain in October. In. addition 370 were injured and detained in hospital.