Gives Most Impressive Show Of Striking Power Since War Began London, Aug. 11. the most impressive display of its striking power since the start of the war, the Royal Air Force in the last 24 hours has dropped tons of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on military objectives in widespread areas of Germany and German-occupied territory.
Guernsey aerodrome, oil tanks at Flushing, a German seaplane base at Brest, munition factories at Ludwigshaven and Cologne, railway communications in the Ruhr, Schipol (the port - of Amsterdam), and aerodromes in Germany, Holland and Bel; were among the targets successfully bombed.
Describing an attack made yesterday afternoon on the aerodrome at Guernsey, which was formerly used by holiday-makers visiting the island, but Is now occupied by Nazi airerat the news service of the Air Ministry says the pilot of a medium bomber, prevented from reaching his main objective in France, visited the island {in search of an alternative target and counted between 40 and $0 fighters, bombers and transport planes on the ground. He released several bombs and saw one fall directly on a large transport machine, while others are believed to have struck nearby The pilot then flew tow and machine-gunned gun posts round the airport.
Rail communications in the Ruhr were attacked, and fires started at Hamm, Soest and Ruhrorthafen. Aerodromes in Germany and Holland received the customary attention.
'A. salvo of bombs at Schipol, the airport of Amsterdam, says the Air Ministry, began a series of explosions and started numerous fires.
Night-flying at Eindhoven _acroframe. was interrupted by a British raider, which started several large fires, while at another aerodrome near Trier several bombs fell across flare-path just as a German aircraft was taking off Bombs were' also dropped on the aerodromes at Glize, Wen and Munster, and in a low-level attack on the Dutch aerodrome at Venlo several
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