The Archive · 1941

RAF. Sinks Supply Ships

Harbour and Aerodrome Also Bombed During Day's Activities; Four Nazi Planes Destroyed

London, Mar. 8, AIRCRAFT of the Coastal Command sank an enemy supply ship off the Dutch coast yesterday afternoon, states an Air Ministry communique, They also bombed a naval harbour at Denhelder and an enemy-occupied aerodrome in Ockenburg.

No British aircraft are missing from these operations.

How the repeated mining of Kiel jean al by the Royal Air Force has seriously embarrassed movements of JGerman naval and mercantile craft Belgrade "Relieved was told by the Air Ministry news service in a brief account of the a tivities of the Royal Air Force laying sea mines.

The first admission of damage in the canal was made in a foreign, broadcast on July 29, 1940, when it iwas stated that the canal had been badly hit that ships could use it lonly with great difeulty and with fine delays, These dimiculties persisted throughout August and Seplem-

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