In terrible weather bombers of the RAF. attacked aqueducts north of "Munster on Thursday night, states the Air Ministry News Service. The canal is one of the most vital links fu Germany's internal communication:
The aqueducts have been attacked more than once and much damage has been caused but repair gangs have been working at high pressure to'restore them to full use. Flight Lieutenant Learoyd was awarded the Victoria Cross for his part in an attack last month.
A blinding rain storm and clouds blanketed both land and ses as the rs approached the target, "hi luckily right over it the sky suddenly became cleat. Sticks" of high explosives dropped across both aqueducts find at least one was seen to burst on the target.
Attacks were repeated later, once Rain And Sleet Braved Driving rain which often turned to sleet shrouded Channel ports, which also were attacked. Flushing harbour came in for another heavy hammering, heavy explosions being caused in harbour works the outer harbour and across the Ver-been Canal.
Bombs dropped among barges in the canal caused, in the words of one pilot, a series of minor explosions followed by a violent blast. Dunkirk docks also were attacked from a low level despite intense ground fire.
Other RAF. squadrons bombed railway yards at Mannheim and Ehrang, a goods yard at Neckarau, four miles south of Mannheim, and main railway lines at Coblenz. Attacks also were made on a bridge over the Rhine near the Trier Canal between Veere and Middleburg in Holland, and on aerodromes at Munster-Handord.
All the aircraft returned safely.
Nazi Oil Sources Hit ambitions, pled e free future Ninety per cent. of Germany's synthetic oil production and 80 per cent of her oil refineries have already been visited and bombed by the RAF, This was revealed by Mr. H. Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, speaking at Spennymoor today.
These targets, he said, had been heavily hit, although production was still continuing &t a reduced rate.
Comparing the work of the RAF. and Marshal Goerings Luftwaffe, Mr. Dalton described Germany's indiscriminate bombing of the civilian population as, from a military viewpoint a stupid waste of good bombs, Which would never win the war—Reüter.
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