FLYING-BOMB EFFORT

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 234, 30 June 1944, Page 5

FLYING-BOMB EFFORT

Continued Casualties In Southern England LONDON, June 28. Flying bombs which crashed in several parts of southern England today caused many casualties. A number were shot down. Watchers saw R.A.F. fighters streaking through the barrage pursuing the flying bombs. , , Seven people were killed by one bomb Which fell among houses in a residential area. . ~ A flying bomb crashed in a south coastal town within 20 yards of a crater caused in a previous raid, wrecking four homes. Four bodies have been recovered from the ruins. In another town three patients and a nUrse were killed when a flying bomb struck a power plant between two hospital wards. . . , , Nearly 100 children in A private school in southern England escaped serious injury when a flying bomb fell in a garden. The children did hot panic, though blast shattered every window, ripped oft doors, and hurled furniture about. Flying Officer Ray Cammoek, Christchurch, shot down his ninth flying bomb today. He chased it for 40 miles and used up all his ammunition, but eventually shot it down. It was flying at over 400 miles an hour. Unfortunately, it landed near the only house for miles around in a country district. ' Flight Lieutenant A. E. Umbers, D.F.C., Dunedin, has shot down eight flying bombs. ' Defence Progress. General Sir Frederick Pile, commander-in-chief of the Anti-Aircraft Command, stated: “It is no use shooting down 10 to 12 per cent, of the flying bombs ; we must shoot down something like 90 per cent, of these doodle-bugs. The fighters and anti-aircraft guns have put up an average which is good. In the past few days we have been on the right road, and we are by no means" at the end of our resources.” . The Air Secretary, Sir John Sinclair, told the House of Commons today that a considerable number of sites from which flying bombs were launched had been located and destroyed, and the process was continuing. He added that it would not be in the public interest to disclose the extent of our information about the methods employed.