GREAT WEIGHT OF BOMBS
NEW ZEALANDERS PARTICIPATE LONDON, June 13 Many New Zealanders participated in Friday night’s raid on Dusseldorf, which, with the raid on Munster, I made a new record for the weight of ; bombs dropped on Germany. War- ! rant-Officer F. M. Lukey, of Nelson, ; was bomb-aimer in a Stirling piloted ! by Flight-Lieutenant L. H. Butler, of | Dunedin. | Warrant-Officer Lukey said: “As j we tore down through dense clouds I°f smoke the whole target area I seemed a solid mass of flames. I ; could pick out streams as biack i lines among the flames. Occasionally I could see factory buildings by ! the light of fires which had not yet | reached them. When we turned for ; home we knew we had won another victory in the battle of the Ruhr and I that the Germans must have lost still j more war factories.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22063, 14 June 1943, Page 3
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