Nazis Admit Air Attacks Not Up To Expectations
[British Official Wireless] (Rec. 10.30 a.m.) RUGBY. Sept. 4. No British aircraft are missing from an attack on the docks at Brest last night by the Bomber Command, states an Air Ministry communique. Very few enemy aircraft were over Britain last night. Bombs were dropped at points in the north-east of England, but they caused only slight damage and no casualties. The Berlin correspondent of the “Neue Zurcher Zeitung” says the following has been officially stated: “Longer nights will bring much greater bombing to Britain. Experience has proved that day attacks over well-defended areas, are, in general, too costly to carry on for long periods.
'The German Luftwaffe will, therefore, soon start large-scale night attacks, although, in spite of all technical progress, accuracy in night bombing is not wholly possible. This is the reason that the success we expected through our heavy bombing of British industry and ports has not come up to expectations."
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Northern Advocate, 5 September 1941, Page 5
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