Devastating Air Attack on Heligoland
LONDON, April 18. Nearly a thousand aircraft of Bomber Command, with a fighter escort attacked Heligoland, the island fortress covering the sea approaches tp the northwest German ports. They also bombed an airfield on an island threequarters of a mile from Heligoland. Heligoland covers one-fifth of a square mile and judging from the size of the force engaged it must have been given the heaviest pounding ever mettle on an island of this size. One pilot said there was hardly a square inch not bombed. The Germans evacuated all the civilians from Heligoland more than a year ago. At that time they claimed they had made it the strongest defended bastion in the world and they published photographs showing great new defences carved into the rock and reinforced with concrete. Heligoland has shelters for submarines and U-boats. The attack lasted more than an hour. It was made in good visibility and the bombing was highly concentrated.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 70, Issue 93, 20 April 1945, Page 5
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