KRUPPS WORKS

Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22554, 12 April 1943, Page 5

KRUPPS WORKS

Heavily Damaged

(6.30 p.m.) LONDON, Apr. 10. Reconnaissance photographs taken after the last raid on Essen show that a heavy and accurate blow was struck at Krupp's enormous factory which covers an area greater than the City of London.’

The Air Ministry says that these are possibly the clearest air photographs ever taken of Krupp’s. Usually the details are obscured by industrial smoke, but when the photographs were taken two days after the raid by far the greater number of the factory chimneys showed no trace of smoke. Fire or explosives damaged 15 separate buildings in the works which escaped the previous raids, and at least three of these were the main workshops, the damage to which would affect the operation of other parts of the works.

In addition to the works the colliery and Essen’s railway yards were also hit, the building being damaged and the railway tracks directly hit. four or five miles being torn up. Attacking transport targets in Northern France, Holland and Belgium to-day. Spitfires. Typhoons and Mustangs damaged four locomotives, three goods trains, 18 tugs and barges, one trawler, one dredger and four oil storage tanks, states the Air Ministry. In Holland a large barge was set on fire and sunk. A fighter-bomber also bambed a factory adjoining the railway at Yvetot, near Le Havre. Five of our aircraft are missing.

The Air Ministry states: “Last night our heavy bombers attacked Duisburg and other objectives in the Ruhr Yesterday evening aircraft of the Coastal Command attacked enemy shipping off the Norwegian coast. A tanker was hit with a torpedo. Eight bombers and two machines of the Coastal Command are missing.” The Air Ministry news service states that the tanker on the Norwegian coast was hit by a Hampden of the New Zealand squadron, Coastal Command. A second smaller vessel is also believed to have been hit and damaged. The weather had improved last night when our fourengined bombers attacked Duisburg and other objectives in the Ruhr, states the Air Ministry news service. As on previous nights there was a good deal of cloud, but there was brilliant moonlight. at 5000 feet. The attack was ciowded into 15 minutes. Fires were started before the raid was over.

Following the final tabulation of a number of enemy aircraft destroyed by Flying Fortresses in the raid on the Renault works on April 4, the total score announced is 48 destroyed 13 probably destroyed, and six damaged