RAIDS ON BRITISH COAST
DAMAGE BY BOUNCING BOMBS.
P.A. Cable.
LONDOhf, Oct. 22.
Three raiders bombed a south-east coast town early this morning. They wrecked houses and business premises. Rescue squads dug out trapped people. There were some casualties. The raiders swooped in lov/ from the Channel, just skimming the water, with machine-guns blazing. The first bomb struck the beach and bounced over high buildings on the promenade, then demolished a house beyond. Other bombs directly hit buildings and littered the streets with wreckage. Two daylight raiders dived from low clouds and dropped bombs on an East Anglian village, causing a number of death s. One raidgr came so low that the bombs were seen to hit the street, bounce over a row of cottages, then fall on a workmen's housing site where most of the casualties occurred. Nine bodies have so far been recovercd, also a number of injured.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 23 October 1942, Page 2
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150RAIDS ON BRITISH COAST Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 250, 23 October 1942, Page 2
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