In spite of severe weather conditions the British Royal Air
Force (RAF) attacked naval bases of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven;
oil plants at Gelsen-kirchen and Duisberg,
Krupps
works at Essen, and other targets. Other formations bombed
Domburg harbour and Mole at Zeebrugge.
The war against Italy Nairobi announced that South African
Air Force had made Fifth raid on Neghelli, South Abyssinia,
when considerable damage was done. British mechanised patrols
inflicted heavy casualties on enemy southeast of Kassala.
Successive formations of Luftwaffe aircraft crossed Kent coast.
Some reached London area and bombs fell. Many houses, a chapel
and some shops damaged when bomb fell in allotments.
Night raids were heavy and 36 London districts suffered. Many
casualties when large block of flats was hit. Hospital damaged
by oil bomb. Church wrecked. Shelters hit and many people
killed. Much damage to houses and shops. Twenty provincial
areas bombed. Six killed at home of mayor of East Anglian
town. Liverpool tenement building hit, and two communal shelters
in a northeast town.
Two, Luftwaffe aircraft destroyed. Britain lost two fighters,
but both pilots safe.
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October
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The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
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