RAIDS AT DUSK
ON WESTERN GERMANY BRITISH BOMBERS ALL RETURN SAFELY. ATTEMPTED ENEMY ATTACKS REPELLED. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) LONDON, September 10. Single R.A.F. bombers attacked targets in western Germany last evening. They took off in daylight and arrived over their targets as dusk was falling. All were home before midnight. Four times today small formations of enemy planes tried to break through the British defences and reach an east coast town. Each time fighters appeared they went out to sea. ENEMY CONVOY ATTACKED OFF DUTCH COAST. LARGE SHIP HIT & SET ON FIRE. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.20 a.m.) RUGBY, September 10. An enemy convoy off the Dutch coast was attacked by Coastal Command Hudsons, states the Air Ministry. The largest ship of the convoy was hit and set on fire and other ships were also presumably hit.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1942, Page 3
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