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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 24 October 1941, Page 5

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DAMAGE INFLICTED BY R A F. DESTRUCTION IN RERUN BOMBING Ol WAR INDUSTRIES Rugby, Oct. 22. From the details which reach authoritative quarters in London from a variety of sources and by a variety of means, it is possible! to give a partial picture of the! . damage which the Royal Air; Force has inflicted in Germany' and German-occupied territory. From the middle of August to the middle of September the scale of the R.A.F. attack was maintained in spite of bad weather. and the following are some ' of the effects which resulted 1 from the attacks in this period, j The attacks on Berlin, though the j raid on 7th-Bth September was the | 2 heaviest yet undertaken, have not been I comparable in weight with the Luft-j wafTc’s persistent attacks on the Lon-1 ‘ don area in the autumn and winter of; » ! 1940, and it is not possible to make [ j comparisons of the damage done. Bcr- | , lin. however, plays a greater part in ' I the German industrial war effort than l . {London. • ! One of the engineering works hit in . , ! the course of the past month is the i i Knorrbrem.se Agep Dant in an eastern j suburb. This works produces almost j r ; all the brakes used on German, and , • j indeed European, railways. , Other items of damage inflicted in ; ; recent raids include considerable de- : struct ion in the railway repair shops i j at the Sehles railway station and dam- : I age to railway installations at and | near the Potsdamer and Arxhalter sta- j ‘ tions. Here the tunnel between the ; two stations was hit, causing many i ; casualties, and a number of houses in j the area between the stations were damaged. The Hockbahn, Berlin’s elc-j vated railway, was hit near Friedrick- j ! strasse, which it crosses. Just two or j ! three weeks ago two of Berlin's four; Ide luxe hotels were both dr maged on! : j the same night. DAMAGE IN BREMEN ! In Bremen, Germany’s second : Largest port, with aircraft factories as j well as shipbuilding yards and steel- 1 works, an aircraft works was hit in aj daylight raid and many aircraft under j construction destroyed, many casual- 1 ; ties in personnel res ’‘ing. > At Deschimag the completion of sub- i . marines has 1 een retarded and launch- ! : ings at Deutschewerte yards are also!, ■ behind schedule. j j In Kassel, an important engineer- :) i ing centre, good results arc known to j• have been achieved by a raid on the j ( . night of Bth-9th September. Tli . main ' \ station was hit on its south side and the 1 } i main booking hall, where much of the L roof collapsed. Two buildings at the j t entrance to the station were gutted i The most extensive destruction was j l the complete gutting of the famous; i palac .■ and of the Friedricks Museum, j i Heavy damage was also inflicted on J s property in Herrenstrasse. i t BLITZED COLOGNE ; Cologne, third city of the Reich, the j i heme of great engineering works and f an important industrial and communi- ! j cations centre, is begining to look, in' I the middle of the city, like some of the blitzed areas of English towns. The damage has been particularly severe in Dammstrasse and in the neighbourhood of the town library. The large department store of Cords, which employed 1400 hands, has been completely destroyed, together with the neigh- , bouring warehouse of Richmondis; ! Haus. This was the wholesale store j q | for Leonard Tietz, the largest store in j s 'Cologne, whi'-h was destroyed in an j y earlier raid. Several famous restaur- L ants have been forced to close down, ijiln the industrial districts frequent hits L have been secured on the Humboldt j r : factories. The Felton and Guillaume s ; works have been hit, and warehouse I v 'property in the port has also suffered, j t laz have several of the railway yards. | a I Similarly, details are known of the! damage caused in the raids on Mann heim. Karlsruhe and other principal objectives of the Bomber Command. — 8.0. W. EXCHANGE OF PERSONNEL US. AND BRITISH FORCES j (Rec. Noon.' Rugby, Oct. 23. , ; The Air Ministry announces that ob- 1 , i services from the United Stales Army j A air Corps have been attached to the j R.A.F. for periods of duty during re- 1 cent months. An arrangement has 1 now been male for a limited number of R.A.F. officers with special experi- : cnce of active service in bombers and , fighters to be attached for a short j ( period to the United States Army Air Corps. Tha object of the attachments is to exchange knowledge between the two air forces in the most direct form , possible—B.O.W. OBJECTIVESIN~RHINELAND j‘ LATEST R.A.F. ATTACKS J 'Rec. Noon.) Rugby. Oct. '23. ( Bomber Command aircraft last ( j night attacked objectives in the ] ! Rhineland including- the industrial centre of Mannheim. Attacks were I also made on docks at Le Havre 1 and the harbour at Brest. l ive of ' our aircraft are missing.