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BOMBER COMMAND

... Correspondent The bombing of Germany is to be resumed on the largest possible scale. Fundamentally the bombing of Germany by the RAF. is independent action, yet it links closely with the Navy’s blockade and the advance of the Russian Army. Bombs hurled on the ...

THE WAR FROM DAY TO DAY

... the first bombs were dropped. Warehouses by the quayside were blazing and a direct hit on a large factory set the whole building alight. The Prime Minister revealed that three U-boats had been sunk in one day. THURSDAY Kiel and Wi were bombed by the R-A ...

Grtes Bumoar

... realisation that he no longer enjoyed complete privacy, for the front wall his house whs down. There was a grim humour in One bomb fell the centre a roadway. Nearby stood a carter and his horse. The animal reared madly and would have plunged away in terror ...

the war from day to day TUESDAY During a year o( war the total of German raiders destroyed was 1752

... fighters missing but three our pilots safe. RAJ. bombed an aircraft factory and power station in Berlin, and great damage was done to a synthetic oil plant. All the principal aerodromes in Libya were bombed by the RAJ. Units of the British Fleet bombarded ...

Broeh’s Big Blaze

... 29. 1941. six bombs re dropped in the James Street area. Twenty-nine people wre killed and 5 injured. In Peterhead fifty-six houses have been demolished and 1,138 damaged by Nazi bombs. In other parts of Aberdeenshire most of the bombs dropped haw fallen ...

THE WAR FROM DAY TO DAY TUESDAY A.F. bombers for the third time within k week attacked the Caproni aircraft

... and fighter planes send several formations flying I disorder. German transports were bombed by the fleet Air Ann Haugesund, Norway. Two direct hits were made by bombs on one of the transports. The naval base at Kiel, thirty aerodromes, oil refineries, ...

RACING PIGEON CLUB t

... with heavy losses. French Fleet Air Arm bombed and set on fire oil tanks in the region of Venice and warships shelled industrial plants and the railway line on the Italian coast. R.A.F. carried out more heavy bombing raids behind the enemy lines. In Trondheim ...

Hospital Hit

... organ through a gaping hole in one of the walls. Bombs which fell in a cemetery uprooted tombstones and flung fragments of them in all directions. In one of the rooms left open to the street after a bomb had tom its way through a tenement, a budgerigar ...

A campaign that doesn’t hold water

... the campaign is the letter bombs which have been sent to various places, including the offices of an English water company where an innocent victim was injured. It is even worse that the apparent source of these letter bombs seems to be here in the North ...

Annual Prize Giving and

... R.A.F. again bombed enemy lines of communications. oil refineries, marshalling yards, and aerodromes. Fifteen enemy planes were shot down. Air raid warnings were sounded in twelve English counties and high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped, ...

Three Famous “Characters” of Long Ago Recalls the Doings Wullie Teetie How They Got Home at a Funeral A week

... his way towards the French coast. He was in many towns bombed by the enemy, but managed to escape uninjured. His troubles began when he made a forced landing. Three Domiers tried unsuccessfully to bomb his Hurricane. After 24 hours’ wait, he managed to get ...

LETTERS . v ... Brochers Abroad Fraserburgh, 19/1/41, Dear Mr Editor, Will you please publish the letter ..

... of bombs fell on an aerodrome and at Mandal a hangar received a direct hit. H.M.S. Illustrious, aircraft carrier, arrived safely in a Mediterranean port after being attacked almost continuously for seven hours by forty dive bombers Scores of bombs fell ...