Command and the Fleet Air Arm also stracked the German-held submarine base of Lorient, said the Air Ministry Boulogne also was raided.
R. A. F pilots reported heavy explosions at "vital points" following their raids.
Calais was another target of the British raiders, it was said.
Bombs fell among planes on the ground at German occupied aerodromes. At one airport six planes on the ground went up in flames after British bombs fell.
All the R. A. F. raiders returned safely to their bases, the communique—United Pri Recent Raids Analyzed authoritative analysis of Royal Air Force raids in the first fourteen months of the war shows that British aircraft bombed 261 places in Germany, 233 in occupied territory and Nis! 17 in Italy.
Berlin had 26 raids in this period but the most frequently visited place was Hamm, the largest and most important rail centre and goods yard in Europe, which was visited over 80 times.
In all, ports, docks ete., were bombed at 18 places in Germany and 63 in occupied territories; oil targets, 27 in Germany and 22 im occupied territories; seaplane bases and aerodromes, 84 places in Germany and 115 in occupied. territories;—goods yards and railway centres etc., 78 places in Germany and 15 in occupied territory ies; factories, 50 places in Germany and Hamburg heads the list of these places according to the number of visits paid by Royal Air Force raiders. There were 53 raids on Hamburg and Bremen comes next with 34. Wilhelmshaven had 31 raids.
Outside Germany the chief potential invasion ports of Boulogne, Calais, Flushing, Ostend: and Rach had between 40 and 50 raids. The total of shipping -attacked Among these places Gelsenkitchen comes at the head of the lot, with 30 raids. Royal Air Force raids on goods yards and railways etc., numbered 475; those on factories and works 218 and on air bases 641.—Reuter.
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