A pilot described how he saw streams of blazing ai] gushing from shattered tanks, and towards the end of the raid the pall of smoke was so dense that a raider, arriving at a height of 10,000 feet, found observa tion difficult owing to the smoke through which he was flying.
Another pilot described how he got a direct hit following which a sheet of flame shot 400 feet into the air, after which three explosions bumped his aircraft.
Other forces of British bombers attacked railway sidings and a power station at Cologne.
Both yesterday and the previous night, a number of attacks was made on German aerodromes in northern France.
Four British aircraft failed to return from these operations.—Reuter.
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