The Archive · 1940

Communications Disrupted

The real targets of the Allied raiders were the roads, bridges and railways all the way back from the advancing German army to the Rhine, This apparently seriously disrupted German rail trafic and other communications.

Oil tanks at Hanover, Hamburg and Bremen were also bombed and set afire. Allied airmen reported that flames were leaping 1,500 feet into the air from the flaming tanks after the Allied raids.

The air fighting yesterday Was terribly fierce and the French air headquarters reported that one single squadron of eighteen American-built fighting planes shot down 39 German planes in the past three days.

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