ATTACK ON BOULOGNE
HITS ON E-BOAT SHELTERS (Rec. 7 p.m.) RUGBY, June 18. It is now known that Bomber Command’s daylight attack oh Boulogne on June 16 was as successful as the attack the previous evening on Le Havre. The bombing was for the most part through cloud. Lancasters and Halifaxes shattered the enemy’s naval strength at Boulogne. Nine R-boats were there just before the attack, but none can now be seen. There were several direct hits on the concrete roofs of E-boat shelters with heavy high explosive bombs, but probably not with 12,000-pounders, which were aimed at the water near the entrance to the Eboat pens in order to raise a destructive tidal wave inside. As at Le Havre, it was evident that very heavy damage would be done this way by “eai'thquake bombs,” which would not be visible in vertical air photographs.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25566, 20 June 1944, Page 5
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