NAZI ADVANCED STRIKING BASES BOMBED
ROYAL AIR FORCE ATTACK ON FRENCH COAST HEAVY ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS SILENCED. [ British Official Wir.le..,] RUGBY, Sept. 4. From soon after 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. to-day, states the Air Ministry, Royal Air Force Bombers made a series of counter-attacks on advanced striking bases of the German air force in the Pas de Calais area. The operation opened with an attack by several bombers on Le Touquet aerodrome. High explosives were dropped on landing grounds. Later aircraft maintained the attack and the pilot of one saw six separate fires on the aerodrome. Another squadron bombed St. Omer aerodrome and scored hits on the landing ground, which were followed by explosions. Marek aerodrome, in Calais, was attacked at 12.15 a.m., and at 1 a.m. another raider bombed the airfield at Guines, south-east of Calais. “Further inland two raiders were bombing Abbeville aerodrome when a battery of heavy anti-aircraft guns began firing at one of them. The other aircraft dropped a salvo of highexplosives on the guns, which at once ceased firing.” Persons in coastal towns of Kent last night heard many heavy explosions and also a rumble of gunfire from the direction of Calais and Boulogne. The detonations continued for more than an hour.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 210, 6 September 1940, Page 5
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