R.A.F. BOMBINGS
THE RAIDS ON HANOVER PROOF OF EFFECTIVENESS (Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 16. The Lisbon correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says that persons arriving from Germany reveal the following results of R.A.F. bombings:—First, 600 killed in the raid on Hanover on February 11: secondly, on the night of July 19 the British plastered Hanover from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.. resulting in a paper factory being destroyed in a fire which lasted a week; thirdly, Hanover anti-aircraft headquarters was destroyed by an aerial torpedo; fourthly, 80 were killed when a train was hit near Hanover. Hamburg was the R.A.F.'s principal objective in north-west Germany last night. Its shipyards, factories, and railways were attacked for some hours by a powerful force of bombers, and many large fires were started. Other German ports, including Cuxhaven and Wilhelmshaven, were also bombed. The docks at Havre were heavily attacked by another force of bombers.
From these operations nine of our aircraft are missing.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24715, 18 September 1941, Page 7
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