The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-29
BRITISH BOMB
U-BOAT BASES
CONTINUED nom Page 1,

OOu640uSu rum rage ~
Tended BY anti-aircraft batteries
and night fighter planes. Prelim-
mary reports indicated that excel
lent results were achieved.
Stung into retaliation, German
bomhers attacked q south coast
town In daylight today and scored
q direct hit on q school clinic.
Casualties were not determined
Immediately.
The st. NaSaire raid was the 46th
Of the war IN st. Nazaire and the
first since the port was battered by
1000 tons Of bombs the night Of
March 20.
The attack rounded out one Of the
most intensive week-ends Of bomb
ing yet undertaken. Following the
Berlin raid Saturday night, Amer
lean flying fortresses ripped apart
the important German railroad
yads at Ro.Hen In northern France
and British medium and light
bombers raided the Dutch port of
Rotterdam and industrial targets at
Liege, Belgium, in daylight yester-
day. The new offensive began with
a British raid on Duisburg, German
Steel City, Friday night.
German planes struck back feeb-
~ last night, dropping a few bombs
along the east coast and in east
Anglia, but nowhere caused serious
damage or casualties. One raider
was shot down.
An air raid alarm was sounded in
the outskirts of London, and the
all clear followed soon after.
Nearly 1000 tons of bombs were
cascaded on Berlin Saturday by up
wards Of 800 bombers attacking in
waves of 100 and pilot who was
among the last to leave the target
area said the whole city seemed to
be burning" - =.
The glow from the hundreds Of
fires was visible for more than $50
miles. German accounts Of the raid
reaching Stockholm acknowledged
that bombs 'ell In all sections Of the
city, including the center. Immid-
lately after the raid, the Berlin
radio was heard ordering all citizens
living In furnished apartments or
houses to advise authorities Of the
maximum number Of persons they
could billet.
Mai. Sy Bartlett of the U. S.
Army Air Force, former Hollywood
script writer and husband Of actress
Ellen Drew, went along on the raid
In q Lancaster bomber and pushed
q button that released 4,000-pound
block buster, thus becoming the first
American army officer to bomb Ber-
lin.
Half Hour Raid
The air ministry announced that
the greater portion of the bombs,
including four-ton super block-b bus
tiers, was dropped in the single
half-hour between IL and 1880 p.
m
Large fires were seen to cover q
wide area with great deal OF
smoke" the ministry said. Other
crew members reported they saw
large fires burning on both sides of
the river Spree. The fires still could
he seen though the cloud haze and
smoke from the German coast when
the planes were on their way back"
At least two large explosions,
greater than any mere bomb bursts,
were reported.
Despite the size Of the ralding
force and severe anti-aircraft fire,
only nine planes were lost. The raid
was the seth of the war on Berlin
and the first since March l, when
700 buildings were destroyed.
CThe Russian Tass Agency said
German Gestapo Chief Heinrich
Himmler has placed all Germany
under q cirtual state Of siege as re-
suit of numerous air raid violations
and increasing sabotage. All street
traffic was said to have been pro-
hibited after II p. m, black penal
ties increased and military courts
given jurisdiction over many cases
previously tried by peoples court.