The Archive · 1941

Boulogne Battered

London, Feb, 9.

British raids on invasion paris on Friday night included the: heaviest attack yet carried out on anchorages! at Boulogne, the Air Ministry communique said yesterday, "Many heavy bombs and. thousands of incendiary bombs were dropped," the Alr Ministry reported, "Pilot after pilot reported direct hits. As the attacks continued fires sprang up at many points in the whole area."

The communique said. thers many successful attacks made on ships and barges at Dunkirk. "One sergeant pilot reported the probable destruction of several enemy" versels."

The RAF. hammered Boulogne for three hours and Dunkirk for two hours and also plastered Calais] and Ostend, the communique sald—United Press.

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