In the raid on Germany, continues the Air Ministry, the vast Junkers factory at Dessau, which is one of Germany's main centres of aircraft production, was heavily damaged. The works are within 60 miles of Berlin and extend over many acres, and they were systematically bombed for over an hour. Numerous direct hits were scored.
The crew of one aircraft, whose bombs fell in a line across the main buildings, reported that one hit destroyed the main power-house, and that several others damaged airframe assembly sheds and a large sheet-metal workshop.
In another attack from only 1,000 feet, an experimental workshop was hit and blown up.
The subsidiary Junkers factory 20 miles away at Bernburg, north of Leipzig, was hit by a salvo of high explosives and incendiary bombs, which burst and flared within the target area. Here citframes for dive-bombers and troop transports are produced.
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