AIR BATTLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 September 1940, Page 6

AIR BATTLES

OVER BRITISH COASTAL AREAS NAZI FORMATIONS SPEEDILY BROKEN UP. MANY RAIDERS DRIVEN OFF. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 1.16 p.m.) RUGBY, September 23. An Air Ministry and Ministry of Home Security communique, describing Monday’s enemy air attacks, says a formation of enemy aircraft, mostly composed of fighters, which crossed the Kent and south Essex coasts in the morning was met and attacked by our fighters. The enemy formations were broken up and engagements took place over Kent, Essex and off the coast. No bombs are reported to have been dropped in this attack. Later in the morning the enemy made deliberate attacks on the civilian population in several seaside towns on the Sussex coast, in particular in Eastbourne. Houses were damaged, but fortunately the number of casualties was small. Early in the afternoon, anti-aircraft guns in the London area opened fire on a single enemy aircraft, which flew away without dropping bombs. This evening, another large enemy formation, again mostly fighters, crossed the Kent coast, but did not penetrate any distance inland. They recrossed the coast on the approach of our fighters-