The Archive · 1940

RAW, Makes Night Attacks

The Air Ministry announces yes terday that night attacks had been carried out during the past 48 hou ayainst Hamburg, Emden, Bremen and a wireless station on Utsire Island near Stavanger, Norway. The RAP, bombers were said to ha encountered "violent opposition" during these raids.

Two German. planes were said fo have been shot down around England yesterday. They included German. fighter "plane which tacked a British trainer plane near the south coast Sunday morning.

Five British bombers were said to have been lost during widespread attacks Saturday night on aiveraft factories, aerodromes and oil depots in central Germany, the Ruhr area, Holland and Belgium.—United Press.

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