In the Grunewald one raider's bombs caused two bright yellow ex= Plosions 150 yards apart. Tt was the third time that this crew had raided Berlin, Another section of the night's rate ing force, concentrating on a. large cil' refinery and storage plant Magdeburg, started a me' of fre cross the target from the south-east to the north-east, continues the Air Ministry.
The crew of one aircraft detailed to atlaek the Magdeburg all refinery spent more than half an hour cruising, over the district trying to tind their target. "When finally defeated by the ground haze darkness, they Tocated the city's main railway junc= ion and dropped their bombs on the tracks.
Tncluded among the objectives of Tuesday night's raids over Germany were armament factories and munition stores hidden among the dense forests of the Ober Hartz mountains in north-west Germany. These were being attacked for. the first time. Hundreds of incendiary bombs were dropped, and grea tracks of surround~ Ing pinewoods were set on fre.
As these fires spread, vivid flashes explosions betrayed the prosoness fof secret military objectives which the pilots had gone out to attack, The slow of one great fire was visible from the air 10 miles away.
This was the second night in suc. cession that British bomber crews had attacked military. objectives. in forests, 'On the previous night, the raid covered a large area of' the Black Forest east of Baden Baden. Many fites were then started, which recon~ noirring bombers on Tuesday nigh reported had devastated a large of the forest.
Other objectives attacked were goods yards at Hamm and Sehwerte A blast furnace at Merzig, and several German and Netherlands aerodromes.
Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm, operating with the Coastal Command, fitucked. barge concentrations in, the Beveland Canal and in the mouth of the Scheldt, Fores of the Coastal Command attacked docks. AW finfish ko day.
After a terrific explosion from the oust across the Channel, -stronj fumes of ai! were swept eross the water, and it wax believed a German all dump had been blown up, The Air Ministry announced. "The operation opened with an attack by several British bombers on the Lo Teuiquet aerodrome. High explosives were dropped on the landing ground. Later, aircraft maintained the attack trid the pilot of one saw six separate fires in the aerodrome.
"Another squadron bombed the Santo Mer aerodrome and scored hits fon the landing ground, which wer followed by explosions. "The acrorome at Calais was attacked at 22.15 fin, and at 1 am. another raider Dombed the airfield at Gumes, southeast of Calais.
"Purther inland, two raiders bembed the Abbeville aerodrome. RAF. bombers made a series of counter attacks on advance striking bases of the German Air Force in the Pay de Calais area, Stockholm, Sept. 5.
Firing continued with greater oF Jess intensity throughout Berlin's air-raid alarm early this morning, says the Berlin Correspondent of thi Swedish newspaper "Dagens Nyhet The warning lasted from 0.05 until 2.10 a.m—Reuter.
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