ROCKET AREA ATTACKED
BOMBS DEAD ON TARGET (Rec, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 12. Specially picked and briefed pilots of R.A.F. Fighter Command’s Spitfire Pinpoint Bomber Squadron attacked their most difficult V2 target to date. It was a V2 weapon railway flanked closely by a hospital on one side and a congested residential area in a densely-populated Dutch town on the other. Diving to 8000 feet through a cloud gap the Spitfires planted heavy bombs dead on the target, which was only 100 yards wide. Australian Spitfire pilts attacked the railway lines feeding the rocket area. All Fighter Command's aircraft returned without loss in spite of intense anti-aircraft fire.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25717, 13 December 1944, Page 5
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