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JULY 30TH, 1942 SEASIDE ILLUMINATIONS : Searchlights and tracer shells lighting up the night sky of a South Coast town during an air raid. Bombing Raids in East and West : The Two-front Fight for the Caucasus : Successes of Middle East Air Force BOMBER Command does not always strike at targets selected by the Admiralty, though any thing which impedes the activities of the U-boats is probably the most im portant service which air power can now render to the cause of the United Nations. There are plenty of other targets which go to make up Ger- J^ny's war effort, and they get their turn. One night last week the inland port of Duisberg on the Rhine received a visit from some three hundred bombers, including many of the heavy four-engined class, and no less than 50 of the huge 4,000 lb. bombs were let loose on the river port and on the foundries, factories, blast furnaces, etc. The weather was clear over the town, though for much of the way there the bombers flew through clouds, which gave them protection from flak, though flying blind puts some strain on the crews. Of course, the bombers came under fire when over the town, and suffered some losses, but the bomb-aimers felt sure that they had "it a number of their special targets, and they certainly started numerous fires. The devastation wrought by a 4.000 lb. bomb is always widespread, whether it scores a direct hit on a par ticular target building or not. Russian bombers paid a second visit to Konigsberg in East Prussia last week and caused fires and heavy ex plosions. The Germans have a senti mental affection for East Prussia, the ancient home of the Prussian people, and hate it to suffer from enemy action. In the last war the Russians boldly in vaded East Prussia at the outset, and it is held that this senti ment of the Germans led them to send large forces to rescue their beloved nursery, al though those forces would have been much more profitably em ployed in invading France The result was the Allied victory of the Marne. Hitler, an Austrian by birth, may not share this Prussian weakness, and so the reactions may be dif ferent. These two raids suggest that the Rus sians have now got a COMING TO EARTH: Some fine "sticks" of paratroops and sup plies dropping from Whitleys at a recent demonstration. certain margin of large bombers which can be spared from the battlefields. The recent attempt of the Luftwaffe to keep Malta quiet while more sup plies and reinforcements were being ** <*<*. fcfr — *»+. W l*-*
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