'Crows were given their instructions toon "after breakfast and. then Irmmodiaely' changed ite dying it, They tode off and climbed tens. thousands of feet until "they "could gee, for aaisance of, 1B mil Hampdenc ana "Wellingtons came tien were going on. below
attack, In one, combat a large, part "of the fuselage of a Wellington was set. on, fire. It managed to land in England, but was By. then: almost a skeleton, Combats seemed to follow one: another in an unending succession, and "though as many guns were Hained on the' BHltsh, alerat road daylight as in any previous night attacks "on Brest. "nothing could, check the drive and impetus Of ithe "assault, "'The crew of a Halifax which got 'a direct, hit on the Scharnhorst, moored to the breakwater at La "Pallice, saw a pillar of black smoke rise 1.000 feet from the deck, With a few hours of this attack, the night bombing of Germany was continued with no diminished eft This also "was "against Germany's naval bases. "At Kel. what appeared fo be a shipbuilding slip was burnt out and both there and at' Emden there were many other fires. Reuter,
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