Show F RAID FIRES All lI AIR Affi PLANT J- J avy vy Assa Assault u I t Cos Costs ts fish tish sh 19 Plan Planes s If 11 rI-o- rI By Associated Press I. I BritiSh bombers pressed attacks from to foot Friday night to leave eave in inS inI S I the he tie German aircraft works Lr Baltic port for forIn fork E. E k In heavy operations cost t 19 planes the air min min- ported Saturday low level attacks were madei made i face of intense defense Germans of a target which I Ish sh declared to be of high- high in their campaign ck k k out the German air force west followed by a few hours Sinclair's declara- declara hat hat the first task of the theta was to pave the way for forby fornby by crushing the nazi air airI airbases I ts bases bises and at its sources chines such chines-such such large aircraft on Page Pale Two fc Column Five I 1 I I I i I RAF RAID FIRES NAZI NAil AIR PLANT Continued Irons from Page One works as that at There also is a seaplane base at atI Resuming this campaign fighters fight fight- ers made almost constant crossI cross- cross channel sweeps from dawn to dusk The British saw in the intense defense of the plant at Warne Warne- an indication of the seriousness seriousness seriousness seri seri- with which Nazi Air Minister Minister Min Min- ister Hermann Goering regards the attack on such factories In contrast to the defense at the Rostock Heinkel works which sufI suffered suffered suf suf- four heavy night attacks last month the R RAF A F encountered a fierce barrage of ot antiaircraft fire and a great concentration of searchlights including two made up of as many as 42 beams The R RAF A F losses were listed as the heaviest of night operations operations operations opera opera- in five months although it was believed a larger number of bombers attacked Rostock and Luebeck recently Nazi Naz Planes Planes Destro Destroyed ed Last December 30 the British lost 19 bombers attacking northwest northwest northwest north north- west Germany and in November lost 37 in bombing Berlin London authorities said two were destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de by a British fighter off the southwest coast A A. nazi solo bomber damaged homes and shops in a south coast town but no casualties were re re- re ported At least one more was announced announce 1 by the admiralty admiralty admiralty admi admi- ralty as destroyed by the trawler Horatio which fought off an attack attack attack at at- tack by six of the German pan planes S' S with loss no-loss of life and only superficial superficial superficial super super- damage Meanwhile a soviet listed more than 1350 Germans as asI killed or wounded in scattered minor minor fighting on the eastern front although it again announced no substantial changes Two Main Actions The two main actions were on undisclosed sectors in one of which the war bulletin said the Germans lost officers and men in two days of fighting and in the theother theother theother other officers and men Four German tanks were destroyed destroyed destroyed de de- de- de and more than nazis killed it added in the repulse by byred byred byred red army forces of a German attack attack attack at at- tack supported by 20 tanks on the Kalinin front One Russian tank was credited with two other tanks destroyed and Germans killed A supplement said Russian guerrillas outside Leningrad killed of the enemy in an attack on ona ona a a. German garrison and blew up a a. fuel dump and two ammunition dumps A Moscow broadcast said th that t the Germans lost more than men killed and wounded on the Ute Leningrad front during March and April alone |