London, Sept. 1.
How: the pilot of one of the Royal Air Force bombers over Berlin on Friday night picked out Unter den Linden, the capital's main street, and flying' high above it used it pointes to reach his target, is described by the Air Ministry News E crews conversed by radio telephone over the city for several min-Wtes. "This talk was carried out under an intense' barrage from itteries. the bombers unable to ile Objectives because of a by cloud covering parts of the city. down through it in the face bf intense fire to make their Jue of the first pilots to bomb a works situated north-west of aen he plant was "enormous"
in great mass i-Muy well, then bombs were i endeavour to straddle he did not see how they could possibly have missed the works at 10,000 feet, but because of a cloud they went down lower.
The radio telephone talk over Berlin had to do with locating a target the two bomber crews were seeking. The pilot of one of these planes said: "We ourselves picked "up the target through two fires which somebody else started. They weren't very big fires but then there was an explosion which lit up the whole works for about two seconds."
After losing the target for a quarter of an hour they picked it up again and unloosed bombs which Started more fires. A squadron leader who flew over Unter den Linden said, "You couldn't mistake it."
He flew over the street, dropped on to the target, identified it and released his stick of bombs.
The crew did not.see them burst because they were much too busy dodging ground fire, turning and twisting as fast as they could.
Despite the clouds most of the R.AJF. bombers found either their primary or secondary targets and at "tacked them.—Reuter. scene.
"Other aircraft operating over another of the city's aerodromes scored direct hits on it.
"Hits were also observed on a third aerodrome in the Berlin area."
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