AMERICAN BOMBERS
I HEAVY ATTACK ON PLOESTI FOLLOWING RAID ON ODESSA. BOMBARDMENT OF SEBASTOPOL WITNESSED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.10 a.m.) ANKARA, June 18. It is learned that American Liberator bombers dropped over thirty tons of high explosive and incendiary bombs on Ploeti, the Rumanian oilfield centre. The planes had previously bombed Odessa Flarbour, where Rumanian and German forces were concentrating in readiness to reinforce the Crimea. One American observer, when over the Black Sea, witnessed a German bombardment of Sebastopol which he described as worse than anything he saw at Pearl Harbour.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 June 1942, Page 4
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