VERY SUCCESSFUL
LATEST RAID ON BOCHUM Recd. 6 p.m. Rugby, Oct. 1. Fires were still burning in Bochum yesterday, many hours after Wednesday’s raid, according to reconnaissance pilots who flew over the city shortly after noon yesterday. Bochum is the fourth largest city in the Ruhr and produces a high proportion of the special steel used in the manufacture of hundreds of weapons, from aeroplane engines to big guns. In Bochum steel is made by three huge plants belonging to the United Steel Combine. Between them they turn out a million tons of steel and a million tons of pig iron annually. All three plants were hit during the attack.
Photographs show that this attack was one of the most successful the Bomber Command has made on Bochum. The industrial damage was very heavy indeed. It is not yet possible to assess the whole damage, but it is known that a number of factories, some of which were of the first importance to Germany’s war effort, were damaged. Railways of great importance to Germany were also damaged.—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 234, 4 October 1943, Page 5
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