On the 17th, the main target of bombers was the power plant at Mazingarbe, near Bethune, when 300 LA.F. fighters were in the /skles simultaneously over France, /many móre going out ing day.
On Sept. 18, when the chief objective was the power station near Rouen, operations were on a similar scale, but they reached the peak on Sept. 20, when the largest combined force since offensive sweeps began fock the air to attack the railway centres of Hazébrouck and Abbeville, shipyards at Rouen; docks dt Havre, while a Fortress penetrated to Germany to attack the Emden docks.
In all these operations the Germans ters, and the RAF. 46 14 were bombers RAF. pilots were saved.—Reuter.
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