SHARP RAID
DAMAGE IN SOUTH WALES TOWN MANY BUILDINGS SUFFER. EAST COAST CENTRE ALSO ATTACKED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.0 a.m.) LONDON, February 17. Twelve people were killed and many injured, including three W.A.A.F’s. killed and two injured in a short, sharp raid, on a South Wales town last night, which Berlin says was Swansea. A few bombers dropped flares and circled the town before releasing their bombs. A considerable number of houses, hotels and shops w r ere damaged. Fires were started but most of them were out before the morning. One bomb fell in hospital grounds. The patients were evacuated to othei' hospitals. Four low-flying. Focke-Wulf 190’s attacked an East Coast town this morning. The bombs caused widespread damage, including damage to three churches. Bombs dropped in a residential area bounced over a street of houses and damaged a block of shops. The raiders machine-gunned workers’ houses. A number of people were sent to hospital.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19430218.2.46
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1943, Page 4
Word count
Tapeke kupu
159SHARP RAID Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 February 1943, Page 4
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Times-Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in