Huge Fires and Explosions Observed Following RAF, Attack on Italian Munitions Factory London, Dee. 6. vast Mannesmann and Rohrenwerke armament works employing some 6,000 people, railway yards in the Derendorf district, quays and docks along the Rhine and at Dusseldorf, and coal and gas plants were among the main objectives of Royal Air Force ids on Wednesday night, There was much cloud but the first arrival over Derendorf was lucky in finding a gap and over a dozen fires followed the bursts of his high explosive and incendiary bomks. Aircraft continued to raid Derendorf at intervals for nearly twelve hours. One pilot saw "from fifteen to twenty good fires" in and around the Derendorf railway yards and the flare of fires striking up through the cloud banks told of crippling damage.
Tw in Italy, also was visited by the Royal Air Force, all British aircraft refurl ig safely from the raid. The Royal arsenal at Turin was the chief objective of the attack and much damage was done to reduce the arsenal's output of guns, tanks, ammunition and other instruments of war.
'The British plots flew through dense clouds until they reached the 'Alps then the clouds suddenly cleaved and the visibility over Turin' was ex=
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