Throughout last night, from dusk till dawn, planes of the Royal Air Force were bombarding the French Channel ports. Watchers on the English coast saw the exciting sight. Flashes of exploding bombs, shells from German anti-aircraft guns, tracer bullets and the flares of Britis! machines could be seen right along the coast from south of Boulogne to well north of Dunkirk. As one watcher said: "Miles of the coast seemed to be on fire."
It was the fiercest and longest bombardment that has yet been inflicted on the French coast. Hour after hour it went on and it was not until dawn that the British bombers ended their attack.
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