BOMBING OF TURIN
FIRST DAYLIGHT RAID LONDON, Nov. 8 Flying Fortresses bombed a ballbearing factory at Turin today, announced the Allied Headquarters in North Africa. This was the first daylight raid against Turin. The Rome radio stated that two successive waves, each of about 50 planes, dropped numerous bombs on Turin. A number of people were killed or wounded. The extent of the damage, which was considerable, was not ascertained. Of 315 acres in the fully built-up area of Kassel 300 acres have been devastated. Of the remainder of the town, excluding the suburbs, just under half has been destroyed. Industry in Kassel, which was of supreme importance to the German war effort because of the number of specialised plants, has, for some time at least, ceased to exist.
These facts, says the Air Ministry’s News Service, have been revealed by reconnaissance photographs taken since the bombing on October 22, after which fires raged for seven days. Fifty factories were either destroyed or damaged, including plants to which the Germans had given the highest priority.
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Waikato Times, Volume 193, Issue 22190, 9 November 1943, Page 3
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