"The act of submission did not come as a surprise to Britain, The timely presence of Mr, Eden and Gen, Dill in the Near East suggests a fairly accurate guess had been made as to the moment when it would be reached. The only Power which seems to have been taken unprepared is Russia. The Kremlin authorities At Haamstede, the Air Ministry said, "hits were obtained on a large hangar and other buildings. Another bomb burst so close to a plane on the ground it must have been badly damaged."
A pilot participating in the Borkum raid said there were no signs of activity in the barracks and he thought the Germans must have been having an afternoon nap so he machine-gunned the barracks and then let go a stick of bombs, The barracks, hangars and planes were damaged, the pilot reported.—United Press,
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