GREAT MASSES OF FIRE
MUNICH DURING R.A.F. RAID HIGH EXPLOSION NOTICED (Rec. 11.10 a.m.) Rugby, Mar. 10. The Air Ministry News Service says well over 500 tons of high explosives and incendiaries were dropped on Munich last night. Munich, the headquarters of the Nazi Party, is the centre of railway workshops and a town of great engineering and armament factories. A pilot who arrived midway through the bombing said the whole centre of the main target area was obscured by smoke. There were great masses of fire glowing through the smoke and other fires were scattered round the main concentration. One huge explosion rose over 1000 feet and a great jet of flame was seen going up from what seemed to be a large round tank near one of the marshalling yards. There was a great display of searchlights around the town, but they were not all so well supported by flak as in the past. Two German fighters were destroyed.—B.O.W.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 11 March 1943, Page 2
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