AIR ATTACKS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 98, 27 April 1945, Page 5

AIR ATTACKS

BOMBER COMMAND ACTIVE ' Recd. 9 y.m. London, April 25 I Five hundred. Halifaxes and Lancas- ’ ters from R.A.F. Bomber Command, f escorted by Spitfires, to-day attacked : coastal guns and fortified positions on | the Frisian Island of Wagerooge, near i the mouth of the river Weser. The attack began soon after 5 p.m., says ' the Air Ministry, and the bombing was , so highly concentrated that the master I bomber controlling the attack stopped i the bombing of several targets because | it was considered that no more dam-> age could be done. Smoke covered the whole island and fires were. spreading throughout the entire target! area as the last aircraft turned for; home. Seven bombers are missing. | R.A.F. bombers last night attacked an oil storage depot at Vallo, in Oslo fjord. Attacks were also made on a i transformei' station at Rasing, near Munich, and the naval base of Kiel. | HITLER’S HIDEOUT | BOMBED Recd. 6 p.m. Rugby, April 25. i Hitler’s Berchtesgaden chalet, the S.S. barracks in the grounds and his mountain refuge at the top of the Kehlstein, live miles from the chalet, were attacked between 9 and 10 o'clock this morning by-separate forces of R.A.F. Lancasters. The Lancasters, two of which are mis ng, were escorted by Mustangs. Twelve thousand pound bombs and other heavv explosive bombs were dropped.—B.O.W. -