The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-28
Continue Large Scale Blows Made Last Night
 Upon German Zones HEAVIEST ATTACK OF
 ALL UPON GERMANY Many Nazi Industrial, War Supply Zones Given
 Frightful Blasting
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE, JR. United Press Staff Correspondentl

BY EDWARD w. BEATTTE, JR. United Press Stan Correspondentl
 London, June 28-(UP)- Strong formations of British planes sped across the Eng. fish Channel today to blast invasion ports and German bases in north France, con- tinuing a large-scale attack made last night on shipyards and industrial objectives in northwestern Germany. Long range bombing planes, In their i7th successive night attack on German and German occupied territory, had made e powerful attack on Bremen and VegesacE, the air ministry had said, scoring "many direct hits" on shipyards and industrial objec" tiveS.
 Other targets during the nigho attack, apparently one of the heav- lest ever made on Germany, as l9 British bombing planes were admit. ted lost, were the naval bases ae Emden Wilhelmshaven and Cux- haven, and Oldenburg, Denhelder and Dunkirk.
 Kept On This Morning
 British Blenheim bombers es- corted by fighters, were reported to have carried out c successful at- tack this morning against Q power station at Confines, near Lille in northwestern France, and to have destroyed three enemy fighter planes,
 All the bombers were said to have returned safely from the morn ing sweep of north France. Three British fighters were reported miss. ing, but one of the pilots was said to be safe.
 Returning pilots reported that they had encountered only . few enemy fighters. su
 The attack during the night on Vegesack. near Bremen, was the sec- ond of the war. British bombers struck at the Vulcan submarine building yards there last Nov. 5.
 While long-range bombers ham, mered distant objectives during the night, planes of the fleet air arm, operating under the coastal com mand pounded the docks at Calais, on the north French coast across the English channel from Dover.
 Hit Nm Two Directions
 It was just before a. m, today 6 a. m, EST) that British planes started across to France. They were In big formations and they travelled in two directions, bent on a wide- spread offensive. IVY
 Smoke trails from the raiders, high in the sky, covered the entire Strait of Dover.
 One big force ffew over Boulogne and met with heavy anti-aircraft fire but kept its formation and soon the crash of heavy bombs was heard on the British coast,
 For 45 minutes the crashes of bombs reverberated through British coastal towns, indicating that the bomber force taking part in the sweep was larger than in any pre- vious sweep.
 United Press observers heard the raiders go and return and never once heard the machine cunning which would have told that German planes were challenging the sweep fleet.
 Some explosions were heard only faintly. These indicated that the Royal Air Force was striking at ob- jectives deep inland. It was note- worthy that in the last few days the British planes had been pene- < trating deeper and deeper.
 Three Sweeps Yesterday
 Today's sweep followed three hig sweeps yesterday. Today was tho eighth straight day of Royal Air
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