CRASH OF BOMBER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 131, 3 May 1940, Page 8

CRASH OF BOMBER.

MANY SERIOUSLY INJURED. (.British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 1. Thirty-four persons were seriously Injured and 122 less seriously as the result of the fall of the Heinkel bomber at Clacton-on-Sea. The incident afforded an interesting test of the efficiency of air raid precautions personnel. The police and fire brigade were on the spot immediately. A first-aid party arrived within five minutes and the first rescue party within ten minutes. Further rescue parties and parties of stretcher-bear-ers were dispatched within ten to 20 minutes. The first-aid ,parties were quickly supplemented by mobile first-aid units consisting of doctors and nurses with full surgical equipment in spe-cially-fitted lorries. ACCURATE 11.A.F. BOMBING. The accuracy of Coastal Command bombing was demonstrated at Stavanger (Norway) to-day when, flying at 15,000 feet, R.'A.F. machines scored a succession of direct hits on the runway. When dropped from this height—approximately three miles—a bomb must be released two miles from the target and to obtain direct hits on so limited a target as an aerodrome runway shows a high degree of skill on the part of the bomb aimers. According to one pilot there was no enemy activity on the aerodrome. “The place seemed to he asleep,” he said.