!AIR RAID WILHELMSHAVEN!
by Kurt-Egon Heiner
Wednesday, April 10, 1940
At 7:55 this morning a parade of low-flying British bombers attacked the harbor and naval base at Wilhelmshaven. Four ships were destroyed, six more were damaged. We had two fighters on patrol; they managed to bring down one of the enemy bombers. Flak gunners are credited with one more. The other seven escaped unharmed. The dead and wounded are as yet uncounted. All that is known for certain is that there are many. Most of the naval personnel and many civilians leaped in to aid in rescue operations. Two returning U-boats even stopped to aid the survivors of a crippled and sinking destroyer in the outer harbor.
Harbor patrol boat
Another patrol boat
Guard keeps curious onlookers from aproaching burning merchant ship
Sunken destroyer
One of the heroic u-boats which helped rescue survivors
Neutral Swedish merchant vessel destroyed in British air attack