“ENEMY RAIDS”
BRITISH AIR EXERCISES OPERATIONS IN ;BAD WEATHER CONDITIONS. INTENSIVE ATTACK & DEFENCE TACTICS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON. August 9. An Air Ministry communique, covering ail - exercises operations to 3.30 a.m. today says: “The ‘enemy’ made 160 raids, concentrating particularly on the Thames Estuary and Home counties. The enemy operated under the worst conditions, with heavy cloud banks and rainbelts sometimes forty miles in width. The Eastlanders operated at from 400 to 10,000 feet, light and. heavy anti-aircraft guns continuously working. The Southern area alone suffered nearly one hundred raids, sixty fighter patrols effecting a number of interceptions. A.heavy raid on Portsmouth was broken up.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 7
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110“ENEMY RAIDS” Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1939, Page 7
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