NO AIR RAIDS OVER BRITAIN
R.A,F. ATTACK ON BREST VALONA AGAIN RAIDED (British Official Wireless.) RUGiBY. February 2. After a break of one night, during the past week, an Air Ministry and Home Security communique issued this morning dealing with enemy activity by might again states: ‘There is nothing to report.” Last night’s R.A.F*. activities are reported in an Air Ministry communique which states, that on Saturday night, a small force of coastal command aircraft attacked the docks at Brest.
During yesterday, despite unfavourable weather conditions, patrols of reconnaissance flights were carried out. Two of our aircraft are missing from these operations. It is officially announced from Athens that Volauo was again attacked vesterdav by bombers ot the R.A.F.. the raid being carried out in bad weather conditions. Warehouses, a munitions dump and a timber , depot were among the targets effectively bombed, direct lifts on buildings being registered. A.A. fire was intense but the formation machinegunned a battery from a. low level. AH our aircraft returned safely.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLX, Issue 14654, 3 February 1941, Page 6
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