BIG RAID ON GERMANY
300 BOMBERS IN ACTION NUREMBERG PLASTERED (Rec. 1 a.m.) LONDON, October 13. Three hundred bombers of the Royal Air Force during the night carried out a heavy raid on targets in Germany, the second big offensive for some time. Nuremberg, the capital of Franconia, which is a Nazi stronghold and the site of important war industries, received a plastering, in addition to other places in north-west and west Germany. The port of Bremen was another target. Eleven British bombers are missing. Some particulars of the Short Stirling, Britain’s gigantic bomber, have been released in London. The machine is 87 yards long and it carries a tremendous bomb load. It is armed with guns in the nose, amidships and in the tail. A Stirling recently proved its fighting capabilities by shooting down two Messerschmitts and driving off a third.
HURRICANES SINK TWO SHIPS LONDON, October 12. The people of Ramsgate on Sunday morning were given a thrilling grandstand demonstration of the firing power of the new Hurricane fighters. They saw at least two enemy ships destroyed during the Hurricanes’ sweep over the Channel. The visibility was so good that an enemy convoy could be seen travelling down the French coast from the direction of Dunkirk. The Hurricanes, some carrying four cannon and the others 12 machine-guns, dived to the attack. Almost immediately one ship blew up. The Hurricanes then made a mass attack on the larger ship, which was set on fire and then exploded, leaving a pall of smoke hanging over the spot.
BIG RAID ON GERMANY
Southland Times, Issue 24565, 14 October 1941, Page 5
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