DESTRUCTION OF NAZI RAIDERS OVER BRITAIN
Night Fighters Taking Heavier Toll WIDESPREAD BRITISH RAIDS AGAIN MADE WITHOUT LOSS HAVOC WROUGHT IN MANNHEIM AND ELSEWHERE LONDON, .May 6. Nine German bombers were destroyed last night in raids on Britain, eight by night fighters. This makes 39 enemy planes destroyed in the first five nights of May and 201 since the beginning of the year. This compares with 95 during the last four months of 1940, the period of intense night bombing. British planes again carried out heavy raids from Norway to the French Atlantic coast without the loss of a single plane. The main attack was against Mannheim, a large industrial centre on the Rhine. Tremendous explosions occurred among vital targets, Frankfurt-on-Main was among the other objectives, where many fires were started. Two more German planes were destroyed by fighters over the Channel in daylight today.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 May 1941, Page 5
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