4/10/1943. 8.= am. R. Wessel.
Our bombers raided Germany last night which
followed a day of air battles from Holland
to Italy.
In the morning Merodas bombed airfields
in Holland and in the afternoon Rouen
and train transformer stations between Paris
and the Coast. The attack was a low
level one and the bombers were escorted
by Spitfires and Typhoons.
Bomb carrying Typhoons bombed the docks
railways and sheds at Flushing and afterwards
carried on as fighters attacking shipping
in the Scheldt.
Thunderbolts carried out sweeps.
In all 24 enemy planes were shot down
for a loss of 11 fighters and 4 medium
bombers.
British and German guns were in
action over the Channel last night.
The Germans said a convoy was passing
through the Channel.
During September British planes went
out 25 nights of the 30 and during 30 days
also out of 30. Notwithstanding
bad weather 130 enemy fighters were
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