The Archive · 1940

Trains Bombed

"Several other sections of night raiders, with railway communications in the Rhineland' and Ruhr as their objectives, attacked marshalling yards, railway junctions and supply trains, Three goods trains were hit by bombs-at Soest, while four trains, believed to have been loaded with munitions, were struck by bombs. Explosions at once broke out among the wagons.

"Other military objectives attacked during the night included a power station near Hamburg and a large munitions. works at Cologne, which was lit with fames several hundred feet high."—Reuter.

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