The Archive · 1940

Munich Has Longest Raid

Railway Lines Wrecked, Locomotive Shed Struck

Sor ing Yards Engulfed in Mass of Flames London, Nov. 10. locomotive sheds were struck and sorting yards became engulfed in flames in a mass of fire on Friday night and the ea hours of Saturday as RAP. bombers subjected rail communi centres in Munich to one of the hi sst_andl most concentrated attacks yet launched by the RAF, against a single objective.

The began soon after 8.30 p.m.

For nearly two hours relays of attackers ied down high-explosi and incendiary bombs on a four-mile long sortie ing yard and railway workshops, which form the nerve centre of Bavaria's widespread network of electric railways

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