The Archive · 1941

French Coast Blasted

Folkestone, Oct. 1, Britain's Royal Air "Pores last night carried our what was believed to be one of the heaviest raids of the war on the French coast from Boulogne to Calais after blowing up two enemy' ships from a convoy in "The United Press correspondent, while telephoning' this despateh Eondon froma booth, facing Bou Jeune, could view a wide aren was a mass of slabbing ant with hundreds of searchlight knifing into the sky, probing for the British raid-ere heard crossing. the Channel in British bombers first attacked Calais, and flaming onions and. tracer Bullets! from the defence guns ripped Into the sky. 'Terrific ashes. could bbe seen from the cliff tops, {uminating: the whole Dover and Straits area =the flashes were "from "bursting bombs. "Buildings on this side of the Channel were shaking' from" the terrific explosions.

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