The Archive · 1940

Trucks Go Up In Flames

At a yard at Ehrang, near the Luxembourg frontier north of Trier, heavy bombs burst along a line of trucks, causing several explosions and fires, which burned with a vivid glare. Other bombs bursting on the permanent way south of the yard caused heavy explosions.

At Osnabruck, two bombers flew through a dense cloud and, attacking from various heights, they started ten large fires in some yards.

At a yard at Essen, heavy bombo were dropped on railway sidings, and the rear-gunner of one aircraft saw flashes of explosions among a tangle of sidings and switches.

The Schwerte marshalling yards snd sidings at Emmerich were also attacked.

The Germans have recently been routing much of their military traffic through yards at Brussels. These have been attacked several times by the R.A.F. in the past week. They were bombed again on Thursday night, and after bursts had been seen on the target a fire three-quarters of a mile long wad seen north of one yard.

There was a series of green-colours, ed explosions, and then another fire 200 yards long was seen in the middle of the siding.

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