Daylight attack by aircraft of RAF Bomber Command on the electric power station

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Daylight attack by aircraft of RAF Bomber Command on the electric power station

Daylight attack by aircraft of RAF Bomber Command on the electric power station and chemical works at Gosnay, five and half miles south west of Bethune in German occupied France during the second World War.
Photo shows:
1. Bomb bursting on the south west boilerhouse
of the Gosnay power station.
2. The North East. bollerhouse is hit.
3. Bombs bursting on the railway sidings and rolling stock.
4. Bombs bursting along the south west edge of the dynamo house and on the coal washing plant.
5. Numerous hits on the coal conveyor and workshops.
6. Bursts on the chemical works.
7. Bombs bursting on the oil pipeline and on the railway sidings and rolling stock.
8. Incendiaries burning close to the oil tanks.
9. Bombs bursting to the North East of the oil tanks.
26th September 1941

Official
Daily Mirror
Mirrorpix
Gosnay
France

Media ID 21883551

© Mirrorpix

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