ENEMY RAIDERS
PLANES SIGHTED OVER ENGLAND DRIVED OFF BY FIGHTERS & GUNS. AIR MINISTRY REPORT. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.59 a.m.) RUGBY, November 17. The Air Ministry announced this afternoon: "Air raid warnings in South Lancashire, Cheshire and in North Wales were given shortly after 11 a.m. today, when an enemy aircraft, apparently a Heinkel reconnaissance plane, was detected by the R.A.F. Observer Corps. Anti-aircraft guns were soon in action near Manchester and at Merseyside, where British fighters went up and drove away the enemy aircraft. No bombs were dropped. The ‘raiders passed’ signal was given after a few minutes. Enemy aircraft were also reported near the Shetlands this morning.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 November 1939, Page 5
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