HEAVY BOMBS
DROPPED BY GERMAN PLANES IN SHETLANDS EXPLOSION OPENS CRATER IN HILLSIDE. SCHOOL MISSED BY QUARTER OF A MILE. Rv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, November 14. The four German planes in the Shetland raid on Monday dropped at least twelve bombs of 5001 b each. One seven-pound fragment hit a small house. Four, described as aerial torpedoes, fell in the sea. Four, bunched together, struck land a quarter of a mile from a school, which was occupied at the time. Four more struck a hilltop three miles distant. The bombs made craters twenty feet wide and nine feet deep, threw earth and stones 150 feet into the air and pitted an area of two hundred yards. The planes, flying low owing to heavy rain, were visible only for a few seconds. When the anti-aircraft guns opened fire, two of the planes were seen to wobble.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1939, Page 6
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151HEAVY BOMBS Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1939, Page 6
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