LOSSES YESTERDAY
THIRTY-FOUR ENEMY MACHINES AND TWELVE BRITISH FIGHTERS. THREE PILOTS SAFE. Thirty-four enemy aircraft were destroyed in raids on Britain yesterday, Daventry reports. Twelve British planes were lost but. the pilots of three are safe. HEAVY EXPLOSIONS ON THE FRENCH COAST. SEA LIT UP ALMOST LIKE DAY. LONDON. September 5. For the third successive night the R.A.F. bombed the Boulogne-Calais area. There were some explosions so terrific that houses on the seafront of a south-east coastal town were rocked. Anti-aircraft shells stabbed the sky, while searchlights on both sides of the Channel lit up the sea almost like day.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 5
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100LOSSES YESTERDAY Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 September 1940, Page 5
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