RAIDS ON BRITAIN
ENEMY FORMATIONS FLY AT GREAT HEIGHT FEW REACH LONDON AREA. NAZI & BRITISH LOSSES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.57 a.m.) RUGBY. October 25. Announcing, at six o'clock, the destruction, according to the reports then available, of twelve enemy aircraft, the Air Ministry stated that formations oi enemy aircraft, mostly fighters, ranging in size from twenty to one hundred, crossed the south-east coast at intervals during the day. They flew at a great height in the direction of London, and British fighters and anti-air-craft defences were constantly in action. In the destruction of twelve German aircraft, eight R.A.F. fighters were lost, but four of the pilots are safe. Jointly with the Ministry of Home Security, the Air Ministry stated that although most of the formations were split up and dispersed, a few succeeded in reaching the London area and bombs have been dropped at a number of widely-separated points in this area and in South-East England. Some houses were hit and a small number of people were killed and others injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1940, Page 7
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174RAIDS ON BRITAIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1940, Page 7
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