Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1900 - 1954), Monday 1 January 1945, page 5


Smashing Load on E-Boat Pens , LONDON (A.A.P.). - Adopting a new technique, Lancasters which were sent to Rotterdam to bomb E-boat and R-boat pens on 'Friday all unloaded their 12,000-pounders simultaneously, the Air Ministry News Service says. The concentration was so great that the whole target was immediately hid. den under smoke from the bomb bursts. About 800 Flying Forts and Liberators. with over 700 escorting Thunder. bolts and Mustangs, hammered rail and road junctions and bridges behind the German lines at Bingen, Aschaffenburg and Frankfurt.