Evening star., 1942-10-10
Raids
Continued From First Page.

American fighters then get chance
at the German fighters.
In recent months the RAF ha
tried everything in sweeps to entic,
the German fighters into combat
but the only serious challenge wa
during the Dieppe raid.
Reprisals Threatened.
The German radio last nigh
broadcast threat of 'reprisals' TO
the American raid, but there wa
no elaboration. The German higl
command earlier had issued a com
munique claiming the destruction O.
Is Allied aircraft, some" of then
Fortresses.
CThe Germans, who have hesi-
tated to let their people know
that the United States Army Air
Forces have joined the RAF in
battering Nazi-held Europe, broke
the sad news today.
CAT least, they told part of it
with the first mention in a high
command comnunique that
American planes were in action
over Occupied Europe. Still, the
war bulletin kept from the Ger
mans that this was a blow by
United States planes flown by
United States pilots. And the
size and number Of the planes
was only suggested.
(The attack on France yester-
day received this mention in to-
days communique:
Gin the course Of day attacks
by mixed enemy air formations
on Northern France and Bel
glan regions, violent air encount-
ers developed in the course of
which a considerable number of
bombers equipped with several
motors, including such of Ameri-
can make, were shot down with
only one loss.
c'The French civil population
had casualties in dead and
wounded. Damage caused by eX-
ploslve bombs was small'D
Bombings Held Up.
The British Air Ministry ant
Ministry of Home Security said il
a joint communique today that ther,
was nothing to report last night
1t was assumed that bad weathe
over the continent prevented tn,
RAF from resuming its bombing o
German targets during the night
The Germans turned out fou
Messerschmitts today for a low alti
tude attack on an English town OF
the southeast coast and one of tn
four was doWned by British grount
defenses.
The plane crashed into an empt'
boarding house on the beach. TIL
pilot, bleeding from face cuts, para
chuted into an alley of the tow
where he was captured by bakery
man and young girl.
Dispatches from the town sal
that every one was struck by hi
extreme youth"
This weak foray, although no
penetrating far inland nevertheless
caused a brief alert in London, tn
ninth daylight alarm of the year il
the British capital.
Col. Edward j. Timberlake, ir
of San Antonio, Tex, led the Liber
ators.
Squadron after squadron Of Fort
resses led by Col Donald Walker o
Spokane, Wash, roared off this ant
nearby fields.
Two former members of the La
fayette Escadrille worked through
out the night preparing the bomb
ing briefs for the might air armada
Maj. Rufus Rand of Minneapoli
worked out the Fortress group at
tack, while Maj. Joseph Stehlin o
Miami, Fla, served on the intelli
gence staff for the Liberators.
Mai. Stehlin said preliminar,
checkups disclosed that the Liber
ator squadrons had shot down a
least seven Nazi fighters"
All Over the Sky.
Mai. Addison Baker of Akron
Ohio, who led one of the Liberato
squadrons, said:
"I never saw so many Fortresse
in my life. They were all over tn
sky when we reached the target"
Locomotive sheos, freight cars an
huge buildings of the steel and loco
motive works disappeared under tn
red glare of bursting bombs from
the Fortresses and Liberators. tn
crews said.
IT am ready to 60 back any tim
in our Liberators," Maj. Kennetl
Cool, SO, of Cleveland said. He wa
. squadron leader.
I'VE gave 'em hell" Maj. Coo
added, there must have been 40 o
80 German fighters messing around.
Maj. Jean Byerly of Estes Parl
Colo, who brought up the rear ele
nents of a Flying Fortress fligh'