Deadly Work by Air Rockets

Manawatu Times, Volume 69, Issue 124, 29 May 1944, Page 5

Deadly Work by Air Rockets

(British Official Wireless.) Received Sunday, 9.20 p.m. RUGBY, May 27. Aircraft-fired rockets have been used with deadly effect during the past wee.; by Typhoon fighters in Northern i rance and the Low Countries whbre they wrought great havoc among locomotives, railway yards, crossings and general facilities. The pilots who arc used to these weapons think they have great possibilities. Rockets also played a big part this week in attacks on Germany’s heavily concrete-protected gun emplacements, wireless installations and other targets of vital military importance. Rockets were also used by Coastal Command in attacks on shipping, and last Thursday a 600-ton coaster was left sinking by the bows off Ostend after one salvo of rockets. A pilot, who in many successful sorties used this weapon, said when he presses the button of the guns and cannon he feels a terrific vibration, and it is said that as much as 30 miles an hour may be knocked off the speed by the recoils. There is nothing of this sort when tho rockets are fired for they leave smoothly and without a jar, They travel at a tremendous pace and strike with terrific force.