"The frst aircraft to arrive started several fires with bombs which exploded well within the area of the petroleum works.
British bombs also hit docks ana "Oil siorsge depots at Rotterdam were raided by medium heavy bombfers at intervals during the night... Fires were started which could be seen 30 miles away," it Mannheim, important industrial centre in south-western Germany, and several invasion ports also were visited, the communique sid, Coastal Command planes also successfully al lacked the dockyard at Witheimshaven and enemy submarine bases at Brest and Lorient, the com-factories connected with the petro-Teum works, which He on the mainland near a railroad bridge across the lagoon from Venice itself, the Air Ministry reported.
One pilot suid the Britis planes did not cly over the city of Venice itself, but used it as a land mark.
Other bombers struck Germany's all supplies, raiding, among other largers, the synthetic all plants of vastating attacks on British, Allied and neutral shipping.
Other "Coastal Command planes bombed the Oslo-Bergen railroad and scored hits on several points, the communique said.
The Air Ministry said that only tone British plane failed to. return from the giant and widespread raids.—United Press.
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