The British Royal Air Force (RAF) successfully attacked Skoda works at Pilsen.
Targets bombed in Germany included oil plants at Hamburg,
Ostermoor, Hanover, Gelsenkirchen and Magdeburg; docks at
Wilhelmshaven and Hamburg, goods yards at Krefeld, Hamm and
Mannheim, Channel ports of Antwerp, Flushing, Ostend and Lorient,
and 14 aerodromes.
Intermittent Luftwaffe raids by fighters and fighter-bombers,
Bombs fell in London area, places in southeast. England and
in Hants. London block of tenement Hats hit. Less activity
during night than of late. Main attacks made on north-west
and Midlands.
Ten Luftwaffe aircraft destroyed. Eight British fighters lost
but pilots of four safe.
It was stated that the Free French troops under Gen,. de Larminat
were advancing from Congo Valley and had nearly surrounded
village and fortress of Lambarene in French Equatorial Africa.
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