DUISBERG BOMBED

Grey River Argus, 14 May 1943, Page 5

DUISBERG BOMBED

HEAVIEST ATTACK YET Sixtieth Attack on Town THIRTY-FOUR PLANES MISSING. [Aust. & N.Z. Cable Assn.] (Riec. 1.5) LONDON, May 13. An Air Ministry communique states: The R.A.F. Bomber Command last night made the heaviest attack of the war with Duisberg as the objective. Visibility was good and preliminary reports indicate excellent results. Thirtv-four planes are missing. The Press Association’s aeronautical correspondent says that the raid was the heaviest ever for the tonnage of bombs dropped, but not necessarily in the number of planes used. It was the R.A.F.’s sixtieth raid on Duisberg. The losses were not hea v ■ in view of the very large forces employed, says the British United Press. We must be approaching the two thousand tons marks in the loads dropped on German towns in one attack, even if that mark has not already been reached. The Berlin radio announced that British bombers attacked Western Germany last night, high explosives and incendiaries damaging buildings in the residential quarters. At least fifteen raiders were shot down.

A British Air Ministry communique states: Coastal Command torpedocaqrying Hampdens escorted by Beaufighters last evening hit and left sinking an enemy supply ship off the Norwegian coast. None of our planes are missing.