RAF Hits St. Brieuc

LONDON--American-built Ventura bombers of the RAF, escorted by a strong cover of British Spitfires, attacked the enemy airfield a St. Brieuc, on the Brittany coast of France, last yesterday, an Air Ministry communique said today.

One Ventura was lost in the raid, which was made in daylight last evening. It followed attacks on enemy shipping off the Dutch coast, in which RAF Typhoons set afire one armed trawler without loss. Three, German planes were destroyed over British last night.