DEFENCES SWAMPED
Kiel Smoke Screen Proves Ineffective (Received October 15, 7 p.m.) LONDON, October 14. Referring to the raid on Kiel last night, the Air Ministry says that for an hour the defences were battered till searchlights were wavering in every direction and the gunfire became ineffective. The smoke screen which is regularly put up whenever our bombers approach Kiel provided little protection. _ '*■ The crews found Kiel, in the words of one pilot, “lighted up like daylight” by huge fires and a multitude of flares. The fires were so bright that only the bursts of the biggest bombs could be distinguished among them. An Air Ministry communique states: “In the course of offensive patrols this afternoon, Spitfires attacked a goods train and railway workshop, and damaged two euemy minesweepers off the French .const. “Coastal Command aircraft attacked two euemy E-boats off the Dutch coast. None of dur aircraft is missing.” Two people were injured and slight damage done when two enemy fighters attacked a place in south-east England today. Civilian casualties from raids in Britain during September were 207 killed or missing, believed killed, and 238 injured or detained in hospital.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 18, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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191DEFENCES SWAMPED Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 18, 16 October 1942, Page 5
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