A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. —After intense A.A. fire in the London area this Nazi bomber was shot down in Surrey. The bomber made a huge crater in the ground and demolished a house, just missing a hospital as it crashed. It landed in the garden of Mr and Mrs F. Fletcher, whose Anderson shelter (on left) was unfinished, so that they had taken refuge under the stairs. The Anderson shelter was wrecked. The photo shows a general view of the garden, with the huge crater where the Nazi raider crashed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 8
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89A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—After intense A.A. fire in the London area this Nazi bomber was shot down in Surrey. The bomber made a huge crater in the ground and demolished a house, just missing a hospital as it crashed. It landed in the garden of Mr and Mrs F. Fletcher, whose Anderson shelter (on left) was unfinished, so that they had taken refuge under the stairs. The Anderson shelter was wrecked. The photo shows a general view of the garden, with the huge crater where the Nazi raider crashed. Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 8
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