RAIDING BY DAY
SOME BOMBING IN BRITAIN NUMBER OF CASUALTIES SMALL. DESTRUCTION OF NIGHT BOMBER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 11.20 a.m.) LONDON. March 20. Slight enemy daylight activity today is reported in an official communique. On the Kent coast in the morning machine-gun fire was directed on the streets of a town and bombs were dropped at two points. Houses were damaged and there was a small number of casualties, some fatal. Bombs were dropped in the morning in one district on the south coast. There were no casualties and only a small amount' of damage was done. The destruction of an enemy raider over London by anti-aircraft fire last night was witnessed by a pilot of the Fighter Command. He noticed a heavy concentration of anti-aircraft fire, followed a few minutes later by a violent explosion, in the light of which the wreckage of a disintegrated aircraft could bo seen falling through the sky. Tin? c.’odfl of its destruction goes io a London gun post, which scored a direct hit on the bomber with iis sixth round.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 March 1941, Page 6
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