DAYLIGHT RAIDS
ON EASTERN ENGLAND
SOME FATAL AND OTHER CASUALTIES. AT LEAST TWO AXIS PLANES BROUGHT DOWN. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, October 19. Cloud-hopping raiders were active all day over coastal areas in England. They bombed and machine-gunned about a score of districts, but little damage and few casualties are reported. London for the first time since January, 1941, had three daylight alerts, due to single raiders over the outskirts of the city. At least two raiders were brought down. Six of the towns attacked were in East Anglia. One town was attacked three times. The ground defences brought down a Junkers 88 in flames over an East Anglian town. The Junkers blew up, killing its crew. Bombs on a Thames Estuary town hit offices and shops, resulting in a number of casualties, some fatal. Rescuers are still digging for those trapped. A Dornier flew so low over one East Anglian town that residents saw the bomb-doors open. The Dornier also machine-gunned the town. _ Another raider machine-gunned a train entering a station and damaged several coaches. No one was injured. Another raider machine-gunned a train at an inland village and two persons were seriously injured.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 October 1942, Page 4
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