BLOWN TO PIECES
ENEMY BOMBER
SWIFT FATE AFTER FIRING ON CIVILIANS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received October 15, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, October 14. Swift punishment met an enemy bomber which dropped out of clouds' over a town on the south coast one j evening recently and machine-gunned civilians, says the Air Ministry news service. The firing was. entirely indiscriminate. Nothing was in the view of the pilot of the aircraft except civilians, shops, and small houses. He was flyling at a height of about 500 feet. After this attack the enemy turned and flew in the direction of the next seaside town. But some distance outside this second town there was a searchlight post, and on the approach of the enemy the ground defences opened up with light anti-aircraft fire. The firing was immediately effective. The raider dived straight to the ground. One of its bombs exploded in the crash and the aircraft was blown to pieces. I Nothing recognisable of the crew was found. Only one tattered German air force pay-book and. an identity disc were picked up from the wreckage.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 92, 15 October 1940, Page 9
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181BLOWN TO PIECES Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 92, 15 October 1940, Page 9
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