Folkstone, Sept. 25
"I witnessed from here yesterday an R.A.F. attack in which five German torpedo boats were blown out of the water off the French coast between Calais and Cap Gris Nez. The same British planes also shot down a Dornier," writes Dan Campbell, United Press staff correspondent.
"Three formations of British planes crossed the channel, but only one concerned itself with the bombing of the E-boats.
"The bombers began diving apparently before German anti-aircraft crews spotted them, but the guns opened fire from the German boats and the French coast before the planes released bombs from about 1,000 feet.
Objectives of the raids on Monday night included railway yards near the Potsdamer and Lehrter Stations, the West Electric Power Station and the Moabit and Klingenberg power stations. Severe fires were started at all four points.
One aircraft ed eight explo-ions on railway; ings followed by a large fire in buildings. Another aircraft started a large fire at the West Power Station. At Klingen berg, a considerable fire was already burning when one aircraft arrived, lighting up the target for further missiles. Returning from this area, one pilot flew over Schipol aerodrome (at Amsterdam) and machine-gunned search-lights.
Five big fires at Moabit enabled the target to be identified by succeeding bombers. Explosive material blew up in a series of vivid flashes, visible 80 miles aw:
Four big fires were ed at Charlottenburg power station, and the Wilmersdorf power station was left ablaze. At the Danziger Strasse gas works, bombing caused a violent explosion followed by sheets of flame.
Explosions were seen 23 miles away from wrecked parts of the Neukoelln gas works, Another gas works at Charlottenburg was quickly, gutted which a limited number of Japanese troops was authorized to enter Indo Haiphong Tokyo Assurances Simultaneous!
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