LIBERATOR BOMBERS
ARRIVAL AT SEBASTOPOL DETAILS OF THE RAID ON RUMANIA. ENORMOUS FIRES IN TANKS & REFINERIES. LONDON, June 18. The Stockholm correspondent of the “Daily Express” reports that American Liberator bombers have arrived at Sebastopol to reinforce the Red Air Force, and already have been in action. They flew direct from bases in the Middle East. An Ankara message states that the four American Liberators which made forced landings in Turkey took off from an Egyptian aerodrome with 11 others, their objective being the Ploesti oilfields, which they bombed practically as they pleased from a low level, dropping bombs one by one on the big storage tanks and refineries and causing enormous fires. It was the first all-American raid in' Europe.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420619.2.19.4
Bibliographic details
Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1942, Page 3
Word Count
121LIBERATOR BOMBERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1942, Page 3
Using This Item
National Media Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of National Media Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.