BOMBER SHOT DOWN
AFTER DOING SOME DAMAGE IN ENGLAND.
ONE PERSON KILLED.
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received This Dav, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY. August 9.
A Ministry of Home Security communique states that shortly before midday, a single enemy aircraft crossed the north-east coast of England and dropped a number of high-explosive bombs. Damage was done to houses and industrial property in a coastal town. There were a number of casualties, one of them fatal. The bomber was shot down into the sea.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 August 1940, Page 6
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