AIR MINISTRY REPORT
SHIPPING & OTHER TARGETS BOMBED. ■' (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.32 a.m.) RUGBY, October 4. “Though unfavourable weather restricted the daylight activities of our bombers yesterday, attacks were made,” says an Air Ministry communique, “on shipping off Dunkirk, on Rotterdam Harbpur barge concentrations and the Heusden industrial plant, near Wesel. Other aircraft attacked railway communications and oil storage depots near Cherbourg. All our aircraft returned safely. Bomber operations were cancelled last night, owing to bad weather.” A bar to his D.F.C. has been awarded to Pilot-Officer W. L. McKnight, of Canada, who has destroyed six enemy aircraft during the last thirteen weeks
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1940, Page 5
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