VARIOUS TARGETS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 August 1942, Page 3

VARIOUS TARGETS

ATTACKED BY SPITFIRES IN HOLLAND NAZI PLANES RAID BRITAIN IN DAYLIGHT. AT LEAST ONE SHOT DOWN. LONDON, August 3. The K.A.F. was out over Holland again today, when Spitfires attacked a variety of enemy targets. Three large tanker barges off the .Dutch coast were raked with cannon and machine-gun fire. A coastal gun position and German army troop emplacements were shot up. Successful low-level attacks were made on the engines of several goods trains. Enemy planes were over Britain in daylight today, over north-east England and Midland areas. Heavy antiaircraft fire greeted the raiders and fighters went up in some districts. So far, it is known that one enemy bomber was destroyed by fighters. At a north-east coast town, a single raider, taking advantage of clouds, dropped high-explosive and incendiary bombs. At a south-west seaside resort, ten enemy planes swooped out of the clouds and used machine-guns and cannon and dropped some bombs. THREE ENEMY RAIDERS DESTROYED OVER BRITAIN. (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) LONDON, August 3. A small number of enemy planes bombed places in East Anglia and the Midlands early this morning. The damage done was slight. Three enemy planes were destroyed.