AIR BATTLES
DAMAGE IN SOME AREAS. (Received This Day, 11.55 a.m). , RUGBY, October 11. Air battles in which five enemy aircraft were destroyed, while five British fighters were lost, but the pilots of all have been saved, though one is wounded are described in the .following communique:—“Formations of enemy aircraft .crossed the coast of Kent on several occasions today. Most of them were fighters and no heavy bombing attacks are reported. Bombs have been dropped in several places in Kent and Sussex and near the Thames Estuary. Casualties here were not numerous, but there was a small number of fatalities. Some damage was done to shops and houses and at Canterbury windows of the cathedral were broken. The enemy also crossed the Dorset coast in the morning and again in the afternoon, but did not penetrate, on either- occasion, far inland. No casualties or damage are reported from this area.”
YESTERDAY’S FIGURES EIGHT GERMAN AND NINE BRITISH. SIX OF OUR PILOTS SAFE. Eight German planes were destroyed in raids on Britain yesterday, stated a 8.8. C. broadcast this afternoon. Nine British planes were lost, but the pilots of six are safe. «ss»s«B , SS
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1940, Page 6
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