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Italian.
Bombers Fighters Miscellaneous
Total
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18
Destroyed.
Probably Destroyed.
Damaged.
3
4
8
6
3
67
15
76
19
13
Of the above totals 3 aircraft were probably destroyed and 1 damaged by A.A. fire.
German.
Destroyed.
Probably Destroyed.
Damaged.
1
Bombers
Fighters
Miscellaneous
Total
Nil
Nil
1
APPENDIX VII.
Air Attacks on Enemy Territory in Europe.
Extracts from Recent Raid Assessment Reports.
The following reports of damage have been received during the past week from air reconnaissance and Intelligence sources :
Germany.
Hamburg. On the 15th/16th November the archives department and the plans and designing rooms of Blohm and Voss were destroyed. A torpedo boat in the finishing-out basin was hit and sank. Shed No. 17 (containing fats and lubricating oil) was set on fire and Sheds Nos. 18 and 19 and a building near Shed 16 were destroyed. Damage to the railway line between the main station and Lombardsbrucke was quickly repaired. It is said that in a previous raid the Howald shipyard was severely damaged. Another informant states that all the store depots have been destroyed and many quays and cranes seriously damaged at the Hamburg America Line Quay in Kaiser Wilhelm basin. One of the two floating docks between Hapag and Blohm and Voss yard has been hit and sank. The Kaiser Quay district has suffered heavily from bombs and fires. The harbour administration has had to move as their building was half demolished and the gas works was also damaged.
Essen. The steel rolling mills at Krupps works have suffered the most, but the Banhof area has also been badly hit. Stocks were destroyed and the timber store gutted. Bombs fell in the district of Kesselchmiede, but the damage was not heavy. Part of the railway line in the works was hit and the store depots nearby destroyed. At Altendorf (west of the works) and at Kolonie Kronenberg blocks of workers' houses were destroyed by fire with considerable casualties.
Berlin.-Three stores depots in which finished products had been placed were destroyed at Siemens and Halske. A barracks in Charlottenburg was completely destroyed.
Dusseldorf. On the night of the 8th/9th December a railway wagon factory at Urdingen, North-West of Dusseldorf, received several direct hits.
Norway.
On the 6th January two merchant ships which in company with others were attacked off the Norwegian coast were hit and sank.
Belgium.
Incendiary leaves have caused a lot of trouble. The German authorities have put up posters everywhere instructing the inhabitants as to how they should deal with them. The population are ordered, under the threat of very heavy penalties, to report the finding of any leaves immediately to the German authorities.
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