many parts of the target area, in which several-warships were lying. Rail communications over a great area in northern Germany were seriously disorganised by bombing attacks on railway junctions and sidings at Ospabruck, Soest, Hamm, Gremberg. Heidelberg, Duisberg lluhrort, and Rulirorthafcn. Searchlight activity was particularly intense at the inland port of Ruhrorthafen on the Rhine, but the cr.ew of one raider successfully bombed a railway junction there. Munitions factories near Ludwigshafcn were also raided during the night, and in both cases high explosive bombs were seen to burst within the target areas. WIDESPREAD ATTACKS. RUGBY, July 8. Aircraft of the Bomber Command, in a series of widespread raids on air bases in. onemv-occupied territories, dropned bombs on aerodromes at Brussels, at Rotterdam, on the land .aerodrome, on the island of Svlt, and on a seaulane base and land aerodrome at Hornuiu.
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Hokitika Guardian, 10 July 1940, Page 5
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