The Archive · 1940

Coast Attacked

Dive bombing on the British coast reached an unprecedented pitch yes terday. "in one attack 22 Stukas power-dived from. a cloud bank simultaneously. Naval anti-aircraft guns and British fighters were busy for several hours fighting off the attack, un fire, bomb and long the coast and rattled windows eoasiat villages. No hits on the British "British raids over north-west Ger. many andthe Rhineland were also extensive and were carried out over long period. The Air Ministry said the aerodromes at Mulhausen, Panderbora, Raterenburg, Romlitz, and Wesel were damaged by the at: tacks carried out Thursday night and yesterday. - Fuel depots at Emden, Bremen and Hanover were set fire, the Air Ministry declared.

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