London, May 28.
Rail and river traffic were disorganized over a wide area from the Rhineland to the French during Sunday night's activities by the Bomber Command, stated Air Ministry news service.
Typical was the record of one heavy bomber, which within half an hour scored direct hits on a column near Brussels, extinguished a searchlight by bombing it and another by machine-gun fire, wrecked a railway line and bridge, and demolished a machine-gun post in a hilltop with a salvo of three bombs.
Other bombers, it is added, scored direct hits on the railway track south of Aachen and wreched a railway junction in Belgium, where bombs Which fell in a nearby wood caused exceptionally heavy explosions, as if an ammuniuon store nad peen hit. awe heavy bombs struck a convoy of 24 vehicles, and the bursts were icllowed by two violent explosions, and a blinding flash lit the country for miles. nazi Air Bases Bombed According to an Air Ministry announcement, the R.A, F, on Sunday night attacked aerodromes at Flushing, Brussels and Antwerp, and operations were also continued against German communications in Belgium and western Germany, Hits are claimed to have been made on railway junctions, sidings and conveys of armoured vehicles, Earlier, much damage is said to have been done by medium bombers to a concentration of enemy mechanized vehicles near Boulogne, Bombing operations are also stated to have been carried out against various objectives in Flanders, Preliminary reports, adds the announcement, show that 28 German aircraft were destroyed or seriously damaged by British aircraft yesterday, One patrol of Defiants is said to have shot down five German bombers, Five British fighters are reported missing,—Reuter,
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