SIRENS SOUNDED
LONDONERS WARNED IN GOOD TIME TERRIFIC BATTLE IN LATE AFTERNOON. FORMATION INTERCEPTED BY FIGHTERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 26. Air raid sirens sounded in London at 3.30 in the afternoon and the all clear signal was given three-quarters of an hour later. The alarm was given when a large number of planes were observed, at a great height, passingover the estuary of the Thames in the direction of London. Anti-aircraft guns engaged them and British fighters patrolled the sky. When the sirens sounded, the West End was thronged with shoppers and thousands filed into the shelters.
Late in the afternoon two large forces of enemy bombers, flying at 20,000 feet, attempted to reach London but were met by a strong force of our fighters over a south-east town. A terrific but short battle ensued above the clouds.
Three children were killed when a delayed action bomb exploded in south-west England. British fighters in the afternoon intercepted a large formation of Dorniers and Messerschmitts on the southeast coast and fierce dogfights occurred, in which eight Germans were shot down. R.A.F. planes earlier brought down two Messerschmitts crossing the south-east coast. Bombs demolished several buildings, including some large apartment houses, but there were few casualties. Fighters chased the raiders out to sea. Whistling bombs fell at Folkestone, near the gasworks, and at other seafront towns.
GREAT ACHIEVEMENT
BY BRITISH AIRCRAFT WORKERS WEEK OF RECORD PRODUCTION. IN SPITE OF AIR RAIDS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.13 a.m.) RUGBY. August 26. Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, stated tonight that the men and women of the aircraft industry in Britain, ignoring air raids and indifferent to enemy attacks, had provided for the R.A.F. in the last week more fighters and more bombers than ever before in the history of aviation.
Supported by alloy workers in steel and aluminium, by drop stampers and forgers and by all those who labour in the fabrication of their raw materials, they gave Britain a record week of production.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1940, Page 5
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