NIGHT FIGHTERS
SUCCESS UNDER APRIL MOON MONDAY NIGHT’S BAG. FIVE ENEMY MACHINES BROUGHT DOWN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, April 8. R.A.F. night fighters had the most successful night, which the April moon has yet afforded them. They shot down five enemy raiders last night. Beaufighters getting two. Hurricanes two and a Defiiant one.
RAID ON ULSTER . NUMBER OF FIRES STARTED. SOME FATAL CASUALTIES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, April 8. Concerning an enemy air attack on an area in Northern Ireland, the following communique has been issued: “Last night an attack was carried out by a small force of bombers and continued intermittently during the small hours of the morning. A heavy barrage of anti-aircraft fire was maintained by ground defences and one enemy bomber was shot down. A number of fires were started but the majority were extinguished by morning. The number of casualties was small but unfortunately a few were fatal.”
BOMB VICTIMS TWENTY PERSONS KILLED IN EAST ANGLIA. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 8. Raiders over Britain early today bombed a Thames Estuary town, directly hit an A.F.S. station and killed two firemen, seriously injuring two others. Bombs last night fell on an East Anglian town and killed twenty persons. Bombs dropped in Northern Ireland damaged a church and several houses. A few persons were slightly injured by shrapnel.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1941, Page 6
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233NIGHT FIGHTERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 April 1941, Page 6
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