The Archive · 1940

German Stores Hit

Vichy, Oct. 1.

British planes acting as Jong range guns at scored direct hits on Calais on which the Germans had Detailing the folds, the Air Ministry news service states that railways at Ehrang, Mannheim, Soet and Coblenz were bombed. Fires were started in junctions in Cologne, Osnabruck and Hamm, where sticks of heavy-calibre bombs fell along one side sot a goods yard, causing two separate fires.

An oil plant at Hanover was attacked shortly before 11 pin. A large fire in the target area was still burning 20 minutes after the last aircraft had left the outskirts of the city.

Explosions which continued for some time marked an attack on a factory near Hanover.

At Dortmund, another factory was set on fire.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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