The Calais raid

RAF PLANES WRECK NAZI GUN EMPLACEMENT

LONDON, June 21. (TP)—The British air ministry announced tonight that a squadron of Royal Air Force planes had bombed and destroyed big gun emplacements built by the Nazis at Calais.

The emplacements were obviously for long range artillery to be used in shelling the British coast, which is only 20 miles across the Strait of Dover. The air ministry communique said that the new gun emplacements had been discovered by a young Canadian airman on a scouting flight.

The Canadian, whose plane was damaged by Nazi antiaircraft fire while photographing the emplacements, led the bombers in their attack today.

One Bomber Lost

The attack on the Calais gun emplacements was carried out by dive bombers protected by a group of fighter planes. One of the bombers was hit in the intense antiaircraft fire of the Nazis and plunged into the Strait.

The air ministry also reported raids on German air fields at Rouen, France, and is the Netherlands and western Germany.

At Rouen the communique said that a bomber squadron dropped 400 incendiary bombs and a large number of high explosive missiles on the air field, wrecking several planes and hangars which the Germans had just erected.

Short wire story; Martyn is not named (the Canadian airman is unnamed). 'One Bomber Lost' is a centred sub-heading, given as its own paragraph. 'is the Netherlands' is printed so (probably a misprint for 'in'); kept as printed. The cutting is cut off at the bottom: the first letters of one more line below the last paragraph are visible but unreadable, and are left out.