Hamburg Again Heavily Raided
5000-TON SUPPLY SHIP BOMBED LONDON, May 7. To-night’s R.A.F. raids were mainly directed on Hamburg where heavy loads of incendiaries and high explosives were dropped, causing many large fires. Detailed reports are not yet available. A series of daylight raids on enemy shipping resulted in the sinking of a 5000-ton supply ship and a patrol vessel. Nine enemy planes are known to have been destroyed last night following large scale activity over many widely separated districts, says an Air Ministry communique. Considerable damage was caused at the Clydeside which was again attacked as was the Merseyside, and there were a number of casualties at both places. Large bombs were dropped at several places in nprtheast England, East Anglia, and elsewhere without doing much damage. Swanns of German moonlight raiders were over central Scotland last night in one of the heaviest attacks experienced there. The Luftwaffe scattered other forces over a wide area but this month’s total of enemy planes destroyed at night was brought to 50.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 108, 8 May 1941, Page 7
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