MUCH HAVOC
IN KROPPS WORKS AT ESSEN PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE. OF EFFECTS OF R.A.F. BOMBING. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 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 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 factory chimneys showed no trace of smoke.
Fire or explosives damaged 15 separate buildings in works which escaped the previous raids, and at least three of these were main workshops, damage to which affects the operation of other parts of the works. In addition to the works, a colliery and Essen’s railway yards were also hit, buildings being damaged and railway tracks directly nit, tearing up four or five lines.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1943, Page 3
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