Royal Air Force Bostons in daylight raid on Saint Malo. Boston bomber, escorted by fighters, on July 31 carried out successful attack in daylight on harbour works and installations at Saint Malo, and returned with photographs providing evidence that their bombs were well in the target area. At least sixteen bombursts can be seen in and around the bassin Dunguay Trouin, eleven in, or adjecent to, a builders' yard. Of the bursts in the bassin itself, one is a near miss on a 300 foot motor vessel, another a near miss on three barges on the opposite side of the bassin, and a third is either on the stern or on the quay alongside a motor vessel of 250-300 feet

Royal Air Force "Ventura" bombers blitz Den Helder in daylight. "Ventura" aircraft of Royal Air Force bomber command, escorted by fighters, attacked the docks at Den Helder by daylight on February 12, 1943. Their previous visit to the Dutch port was January 23. Action photo taken during the attack shows many bombs bursting across the southern entrance to the naval basin--four of them in the inner haven (Naval). Hits were scored on the torpedo boat establishment and the torpedo workshops east of the entrance. Smoke arises from bombs which burst in a line across the railway in the southwest part of the harbor

Royal Air Force "Ventura" bombers blast Ijuiden steelworks by day. "Ventura" aircraft of the Royal Air Force Bomber Command, escorted by fighters, carried out a daylight attack on the Royal Dutch blast furnaces and steelworks at Ijumuiden, Holland, on February 13, 1943. Action photo taken during the attack shows: Bombs from the Venturas falling across the target area. Hits are seen on the stockyard, unloading wharf, coke oven plant near the mechanical workshops, water tower, and among the foundations for a blast furnace

Some work of German bombs. Headquarters of the Friends' Ambulance Unit at ... after 2 German bombs had just bombed it. Two men were killed and 4 injured. Casualty list was light as most of the personnel were in the abri... under the part of the building still standing. An A.R.C. worker, T.H. Vail, placed with the Friend's Ambulance Unit by the Belgium Commission was on the 4th floor of this building when it collapsed. He was sleeping in the same room with 2 men who were killed. Vail came down on top of the debris. The Friends' Ambulance Unit, an organization of English Quakers, has been working in the closest cooperation with the Belgian Commission of the R.C. through the Red Cross, the American people have, for some time, been aiding in the support of the Friends' Ambulance Unit, part of whose efforts have been directed toward helping the Belgians in the territory immediately back of the firing line in free Belgium

Pearl Harbor bombing. USS Oklahoma. Rescue crews are shown here working on the upturned hull of the 29,000 ton battleship USS Oklahoma, which capsized in Pearl Harbor after being blasted by Japanese warplanes. Holes were burned through the hull to permit the rescue of some of the men trapped below. Note one of the Oklahoma's launches in the foreground. The battleship, USS Maryland is in the background

Royal Air Force Bostons in daylight raid on Saint Malo. Boston bomber, escorted by fighters, on July 31 carried out successful attack in daylight on harbour works and installations at Saint Malo, and returned with photographs providing evidence that their bombs were well in the target area. At least sixteen bombursts can be seen in and around the bassin Dunguay Trouin, eleven in, or adjecent to, a builders' yard. Of the bursts in the bassin itself, one is a near miss on a 300 foot motor vessel, another a near miss on three barges on the opposite side of the bassin, and a third is either on the stern or on the quay alongside a motor vessel of 250-300 feet

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01/01/1942

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Saint-Malo-de-Guersac, 47.35345, -2.17773

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