NEW CASTLE NEWS
NEW CASTLE, PA., MONDAY, J U N E 1, 1942.-16 PAGES
NAZIS TRY REPRISAL RAID
Effort Follows Huge Raid On Cologne
Libyan Battle Tide Turns In Britain's Favor
New Attacks Are Unleashed On Rommel's Panzer Army In Desert
REPORT UNITS OF ROMMEL TRAPPED
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday Morning, June 1, 1942
RAF Armada Wrecks Cologne
Blasting by 1250
Planes Fires
Key Rhine City
6,000,000 Pounds of Bombs Rained
On Industrial, Rail Center
In History's Mightiest Air Raid
LONDON, Monday, June 1 (UP)—The Berlin radio went
off the air at 12:41 a. m., Monday, indicating that air raiders
might be over Germany again.
By Drew J Hlddleton
LONDON, Monday, June 1 (AP)—Three-fourths of Cologne
was set afire and a great area of the German Rhineland metropolis
of 756,000 population was flattened by tremendous weights
of explosives dropped by 1250 RAF planes Saturday night in
the greatest raid in all aerial warfare, the British announced
Sunday.
RAF Armada
Ran Gantlet
Of 500 Guns
LONDON, May 31 (AP)—The air
ministry said Sunday that during
Saturday night's giant raid on
Cologne that Rhineland city was
protected by about 500 antiaircraft
guns, 120 searchlights and
many night fighter squadrons.
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