Evening star., 1942-07-17
Raj Planes Bombard
Lubbock Sub Plants,
F|ensburg Shipyards
Biggest British Bombers
Strike in Lost Hours
Of DoyIieht
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, July ia force of
Strings, Britain's biggest four
engined bombers, struck at Ger
many before the fall of darkness
last night in attacks on subma-
rine building yards five miles
from hard-hit Lubbock, and on
shipyards at Flensburg, near the
German-Danish border.
The raids carried to a climax day
light attacks yesterday on objectives
IN Germany which opened with sin
gle-plane assaults on points in the
Ruhr.
Details of the Lubbock and Flens-
burg attacks were meager, but an
Air Ministry communique said
bombs were seen to burst in yards
and slipways of the submarine build
ing yards near Lubbock.
Two of the bombers were reported
missing.
(The German news agency
D.N.B. today reported British
raids on northern Germany and
Denmark late last night, with
Lubbock one of the cities at
tackled. Slight damage was
caused by high-explosive and in
cendiary bombs, it was said, and
two of the raiding planes were
declared shot down.
(The Berlin radio broadcast
D.N.B. report that German air
craft dropped heavy bombs on
aircraft factories at Leaning
ton, near Warwick, England,
causing heavy damage to as
sembly shops)
Shipyard Main Target.
The major target in the Lubbock
area was identified as the Flender-
werks, medium sized shipyard.
Of1cial British circles said "as many
es Is submarines have been report
ed on the slips or fitting out at
one time" there.
Some OF the planes swept as low
rs 500 feet to loose their loads.
The attack was made at 1890
pm, double British summer time,
Is minutes before the nightly black
out started in London.
British air observers said the new
tactics Of striking late in the long
summer day gave the raiders the
advantage of daylight for precision
bombing and the cover Of darkness
for return to their home bases.
e;n 1f
against Flensburg and Lubbock was
not specified, but observers sug-
gested it was probably moderate and
utilized cloud cover for the ap-
proach.
Lubbock and Flensburg share
British attention with Kiel and
Rostock as German maritime cen
ters on westerly arm of the
Baltic.
An Raj armada smashed heavily
at Lubbock March %. Observers
said the thrust there late yester-
day doubtless was intended to smash
up repair work.
Flensburg, near the Danish bor-
der, was attacked July and again |
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heavy raid on Danzig.
First Day Raid on Ruhr.
Yesterdays attacks on the Ruhr |
were the first made on this region |
of Germany by daylight. Targets |
in Northwest Germany and the oc-
cupied Netherlands also were at
tackled.
The raids apparently were light
and in some cases by single raiders,
but the very extension of daylight
offensive activity-now that the
nights are short-seemed to presage
greater forays.
Informed quarters believed the
northwest German target was the
Duisberg district, where the largest
German inland port Is situated.
The Raj bombed Danzig harbor
while the sun was shining five days
ago, but this was the first daylight
raid on Germany proper since IL
great four -motored bombers hedge
hoped to Augsburg in Southern
Germany April 18 to blast a sub
marine engine plant. Seven of the
craft were lost.