KIEL TAKES SHARE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 30 April 1942, Page 5

KIEL TAKES SHARE

- HEAVY ATTACK BY BOMBERS f GALE ON WAY TO TRONDHEIM STRONG FIGHTER FORMATIONS OVER FRANCE j (Rec. 10.5 a.m.) Rugby, April 29. Aircraft of the Bomber Command last night made a heavy attack on Kiel where large fires were left burning. Another force attacked the G»*r- ]_ man naval base at Trondheim and also bombed aerodromes in the Low Countries and a power station at Ghent. Nine of our bombers are missing;. An ene. iy fighter was destroyed during the at’irk on Kiel. On the night of 27th-28th April, when our bombers attacked Trondheim, 5 Coastal Command aircraft made a ser- , ies of diversionary attacks on aero- • diomes and other objectives in Norway and shipping off the Norwegian ~ coast. Hits were made on two ships off ‘ /\alesund and oil tank: in the neigh--1 bcurhood. One aircraft of the Coastal Command is missing from these opera--1 tions. ; The German warships Tirpitz, Ad- ” i miral Scheer, and Prince Eugen are reported to be lying at Trondheim and the Scharnhorst at Kiel. The bomber* , had to face a gale across the North j Sea, but made ♦he 1200-mile journey there and back and carried heavy loads ! of bombs. The Air Ministry states: “This after--2 noon a strong formation of fighters es- - corted Boston bombers, which attacked - docks at Dunkirk. Other fighters made s a sweep over northern France, in the i course of which two enemy fighters were destroyed. Two of our flghterr are missing.”—B.O.W. DAMAGE AT ROSTOCK I London, April 29. The aeronautical correspondent of -The Time';” says it is estimated that * ! the damage to the liemkcl w orks in Rostock rr.-ans a loss of production of between 25 end 30 planes weekly, re- ! presenting an annual output of be--1 ! tween 1500 and 2000.—P A.