Newspaper cutting - 2,200 bombers in new day blows at Reich. RAF stoked Essen fires
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Newspaper cutting - 2,200 bombers in new day blows at Reich. RAF stoked Essen fires
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Two articles. First explains that 2,200 British and American heavy bombers attacked widespread targets in Germany in daylight. Second article explained that RAF attacked Essen by day after previous night attack. It was one of the RAF's biggest daylight operations of the war.
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2,200 BOMBERS IN NEW DAY BLOWS AT REICH
ANOTHER 4,000 TONS ON ESSEN BY R.A.F.
Over 2,200 British and American heavy bombers from this country attacked widespread targets in Germany during daylight yesterday.
R.A.F. Bomber Command sent more than 1,000 escorted aircraft to attack objectives in the Ruhr. The main force dropped 4,000 tons on Essen, home of Krupps, which had received 4,500 tons on Monday night.
Yesterday's attack on the town was the first major one in daylight by the R.A.F.
Almost at the same time other escorted R.A.F. bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant at Homberg – the only one of the 10 Ruhr plants still working.
Four R.A.F. bombers, two United States bombers and one United States fighter are missing from the day's operations.
R.A.F. STOKED ESSEN FIRES
KRUPPS HITS SEEN
From Our Special Correspondent
An R.A.F. BOMBER STATION, Wednesday.
R.A.F. heavies to-day gave Essen a "matinée repeat performance" of Monday night’s attack.
It was one of the R.A.F.'s biggest daylight raids of the war and a vital contribution to the campaign in Holland in view of Essen's importance to the German Army as a communication and supply centre.
Crews coming from the interrogating room this evening are confident that it was also one of the most destructive.
They had resigned themselves to the disappointment of having to bomb by sky markers when over the target they found a neat hole in the cloud layer three miles across. Through this they could distinguish the city and the Krupps factory buildings.
They used it as a funnel and through it they poured their entire load of bombs.
Some of the crews said they could see fires started on Monday.
BOMBS THROUGH ROOF
A bomb-aimer, Flt.-Sgt. E. Dorrington, of Swansea, saw a group of eight factory buildings clearly silhouetted against a large and spreading fire. "I watched my bombs go down," he said. "They all went through the roofs. A few seconds later the whole area became hidden by smoke and flames."
Not one fighter tried to intercept the bombers, which were screened by Spitfires and Mustangs.
The enemy seemed to have been surprised by the attack. In the early stages there was not so much flak as the crews expected. Later the barrage became intense.
To-day's mass onslaught followed night attacks by Bomber Command on objectives in Hanover and Western Germany and minelaying operations.
ANOTHER 4,000 TONS ON ESSEN BY R.A.F.
Over 2,200 British and American heavy bombers from this country attacked widespread targets in Germany during daylight yesterday.
R.A.F. Bomber Command sent more than 1,000 escorted aircraft to attack objectives in the Ruhr. The main force dropped 4,000 tons on Essen, home of Krupps, which had received 4,500 tons on Monday night.
Yesterday's attack on the town was the first major one in daylight by the R.A.F.
Almost at the same time other escorted R.A.F. bombers attacked the synthetic oil plant at Homberg – the only one of the 10 Ruhr plants still working.
Four R.A.F. bombers, two United States bombers and one United States fighter are missing from the day's operations.
R.A.F. STOKED ESSEN FIRES
KRUPPS HITS SEEN
From Our Special Correspondent
An R.A.F. BOMBER STATION, Wednesday.
R.A.F. heavies to-day gave Essen a "matinée repeat performance" of Monday night’s attack.
It was one of the R.A.F.'s biggest daylight raids of the war and a vital contribution to the campaign in Holland in view of Essen's importance to the German Army as a communication and supply centre.
Crews coming from the interrogating room this evening are confident that it was also one of the most destructive.
They had resigned themselves to the disappointment of having to bomb by sky markers when over the target they found a neat hole in the cloud layer three miles across. Through this they could distinguish the city and the Krupps factory buildings.
They used it as a funnel and through it they poured their entire load of bombs.
Some of the crews said they could see fires started on Monday.
BOMBS THROUGH ROOF
A bomb-aimer, Flt.-Sgt. E. Dorrington, of Swansea, saw a group of eight factory buildings clearly silhouetted against a large and spreading fire. "I watched my bombs go down," he said. "They all went through the roofs. A few seconds later the whole area became hidden by smoke and flames."
Not one fighter tried to intercept the bombers, which were screened by Spitfires and Mustangs.
The enemy seemed to have been surprised by the attack. In the early stages there was not so much flak as the crews expected. Later the barrage became intense.
To-day's mass onslaught followed night attacks by Bomber Command on objectives in Hanover and Western Germany and minelaying operations.
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“Newspaper cutting - 2,200 bombers in new day blows at Reich. RAF stoked Essen fires,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed April 28, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/33555.
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