STAVANGER AND AALBORG BOMBED
ENEMY ’PLANES DESTROYED
(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received April 23, 10.15 a.m. LONDON, April 22. It is announced that the Royal Air Force again raided Stavanger Aerodrome and destroyed six to eight machines. The Air Ministry announces that the R.A.F. successfully again attacked the Aalborg aerodrome in Denmark last night. Extensive damage was done and several tires were started. One- 1 of the British aircraft is missing.
DESTRUCTION OF MACHINES. It is reported that incendiary bombs at Aalborg started six fires. A powerml force of long-range bombers raided Stavanger aerodrome in the light of a full moon. Fifty enemy machines were seen around the edge of the bomb-pitted aerodrome. One of the raiders dropped a salvo of bombs from a low altitude on a group ol fifteen machines and destroyed at least six. The others are bclieveu to navt been badly damaged. Another machine sowed a lane of high-explosive bombs across the aerodrome and started several fires with incendiary bombs. Another machine-gunned a line_ of aeroplanes and saw two hurst into flames. A salvo of bombs was also placed on the road near the control tower. Gun batteries and searchlight posts outside the aerodrome were machinegunned. A Washington-message says Captain Robert Losev (American Air Attache) has been killed in a German air raid in Norway. He was the United States Army’s "leading aeronautical and meteorological expert.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 123, 23 April 1940, Page 7
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