ENEMY BOMBERS
SIX DESTROYED OVER & NEAR BRITAIN ' DURING TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. CASUALTIES IN LONDON. Six enemy bombers were destroyed over Britain and the North i Sea in the 24 hours ending on Monday evening, the 8.8. C. reports. Four were destroyed by anti-air-craft fire during Monday night, two on the east coast. Early yesterday morning an enemy bomber over the North Sea was attacked j by a British mine-sweeping trawler. The enemy machine was hit and exploded in the air. The principal targets of enemy bombing on Monday night were London and East Anglia. A number of casualties were caused by a single heavy bomb which struck a shelter in London. The casualties included two nurses killed in a first-aid post at the entrance to the shelter. Total air raid casualties in Britain during January were 1502 persons .killed and 2012 injured. The killed included 720 men. 567 women and 189 children under 16. The injured 1171 men 682 women and 159 children under 16. The remaining 26 \ killed were not classified. DEATHS IN LONDON I SOME PEOPLE BURIED UNDER DEBRIS. I (By Telegraph--Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.35 a.m.) ! LONDON, February 18. It is now officially claimed that two German bombers were destroyed overnight. High explosives are known to have I hit seven working-class houses and I six persons are known to have been ■ killed. The A.R.P. personnel arc codi tinning a search under the debris. - A high explosive bomb scored a direct hit on a shelter. Many persons, it is feared, have been killed. AT CLOSE QUARTERS I NIGHT FIGHTER ATTACK. SQUADRON LEADER'S EXPERIENCE. (British Official Wireless.) i (Received This Dav, 10.20 a.m.) RUGBY February 18. I Describing how he brought down one of the Nazi bombers destroyed over Britain last night, a squadron leader, flying a night fighter, said he manoeuvred for position, closed for attack and opened fire. He continued: "The effect was startling. Red flashes and sparks of brilliant intensity flew in my direction and almost blinded me.! I was too dazzled to see the enemy, | but kept firing at the flashes until I felt my machine in the enemy's slipstream and feared I would collide. I I pulled the stick back slightly and the | enemy passed 10 feet below me.” EFFECTIVE FIRE FROM NAVAL TRAWLER NAZI AIRCRAFT BLOWN TO PIECES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Dav. 10.40 a.m.) ' RUGBY. February 18. An Admiralty communique states: “An enemy aircraft was shot down into the North Sea early this morning by the minesweeping trawler Stella Regel. When the enemy aircraft approached in circles the minesweeping trawler’s commanding officer himself opened fire. He scored hits immediately and the enemy aircraft exploded in the air. There were no survivors and no casualties were sustained by the trawler.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1941, Page 5
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