AIR SHELTER TESTED
LONDON, July 12. The public was told yesterday that one of the new family air-raid shelters, put to an extreme bombing test, came out unscathed. A Government White Paper said that a 5001 b. bomb, which exploded 25ft. from the shelter, dug about a yaid-deep crater around the refuge, but caused no damage to the shelter itself. *
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 16
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60AIR SHELTER TESTED Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 16
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