"Tanks, armoured vehicles and. troop concentrations forming the vanguard of the enemy advance towards French Channel ports were again. heavily bombed yesterday by strong forees of Blenheim aircraft," stated the Air Ministry last night, "For more than six hours, until gathering dusk made recognition of troop movements impossible relays of aircraft kept up an almost con= tinnets assault with bombs and machine-guns, causing damage and. confusion over a wide arca, "Among the first targets success. fully attacked in the afternoon was column of lorries and armoured fighting vehicles caught on the move Direct hits were scored on. lorries by six Blenhelms attacking individ. ally, and bombs were seen to burst fon Foods among the column, over distance of 600 yards, "As each air~ craft approached to bomb, it was subjected to a barrage of well-aimed pom-pom fire from about 30 guns, Having released their bombs, the Bienheims turned their attention 10 the gun crews, attacking them with machine-gun dire, "Another force of Blenhelms delivered individual attacks on a number of targets, and later arrival of found lorries and cars hit by earlier bombing attacks blazing by the roadside, "The final sortie was made against the headquarters of an armoured division by a force of Blenheims specially detailed for the task, Close on 100 high-explosive bombs were @ropped in the course of this concentrated attack, and most bombs were seen to explode well within the area of the target,"
"Last night, a strong force of heavy and medium bombers attacked objectives behind the fighting front in southern Belgium and the 'Meuse sector, 'Much damage was done to road' and railway junctions, "Railway junction at Charleroi was damaged, Bridges in the region of Namur sustained direct hits, 'Troop concentrations were heavily bombed in the area north of the Aisne. Other large formations of heavy bombers penetrated into Germany, where they seriously inter fered' with the enemy's lines of communication, Railway bridges and sidings were hit, Two supply trains were bombed at Geldern. They ploded and caught fire, North of Aachen, two other goods trains were hit, Returning "from these raids one aircraft saved its last bomb for a direct hit on the runway of the aerodrome at The Hague,
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