The Archive · 1940

RAP, Bombs Batten

London, Aug. 24.

For nearly an hour last night, the Royal Air Force again roared over the Boulogne and Calais area, dropping scores of bombs, judging from earehlight flashes and shrapnel bursts visible from the English south-west const, 'A low-hanging mist prevented the British observers on the south-east const from seeing bomb flashes.

The raid, which was staged about 10 pin. was the second TAS. attack on German gun positions on the French coast within 20 hours.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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