The Archive · 1940

Boulogne Attacked Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm and

Coastal Command attacked Boulogne harbour and caused considerable damage. AN British machines returned safely.

Many people were killed and wounded in the British raid on Berlin on Friday night, according to well-informed circles there, quoted by the Stockholm newspaper "Aftonbladet."

Authorities in the German capital state that the British planes came in small groups from the west; two were driven back, but the third reached the city, the Swedish correspondent says.

Anti-aircraft. firing, he adds, was so intense in the Tiergarte and Wilhelmstrasse districts that houses shook and windows were smashed, while

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