FINAL DIVE
ENEMY PLANE FINISHES IN STREET. BURIES ITSELF 14 FEET DEEP. (Received This Day, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 14. Enemy planes bombed a town in south-east England this afternoon. Slight damage was done and some casualties were sustained. Planes earlier dropped bombs in south-west Scotland, with little damage and no one was seriously injured. Over 60 British and German fighters participated in a battle over the east coast in the afternoon, in which two German fighters were shot down. The battle occurred when German bombers, escorted by fighters, attacked a convoy in the Thames Estuary. R.A.F. fighters swooped down, while the Germans were bombing merchantmen, and the raiders fled. Onlookers saw British planes dive and open fire. One German plane nose-dived with smoke pouring from its tail and was smashed to fragments in a narrow street, burying itself 14 feet deep, without damaging property.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1940, Page 7
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145FINAL DIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 July 1940, Page 7
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