Mar. 22.
For the third night in succession, Germany's Atlantic port at Lorient fon the west coast of France was attacked by R-A-F, bombers lost night, it is stated. This was the 49th raid fon Lorient sire the Armistice.
Tt ig understood that some of Britain's latest types of super-bombers were among the aircraft which participated in the raid, which was on an intensive scale. "Heavy bombs Were dropped, and although full ro-ports are no! yet available, the raid believed to have been successful "the attack lasted several hours. Although it was cloudy, many bombs were aimed through gaps in the clouds and were seen to burst in various parts of the harbour, on the west dock west of it, and of the west bank of the river,. where two violent explosions were observed.
'Other aircraft of the same command attacked docks at' Ostend from these operations two of our aircraft are missing, In the course of operations, fireraft of the bomber command bombed warships off the Belgian coast, Other aircraft also attacked enemy warships and supply vessels off the Frisian islands and in the etigoland bight, Aircraft of the coastal command were also engaged in the usual opera-ions against the enemy. In the course these operations supply ships were attacked off the Norwegian coast. A jetty at Egersund was bombed and coastal motor boats and an aerodrome building in Norway were machine-sunned—Reuter,
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