RAID ON ABERDEEN
MADE BY GERMAN AIRCRAFT MANY CIVILIAN CASUALTIES. ENEMY REPORTS HEAVY DAMAGE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 22. Soon after dark last night there was enemy activity over the coastal areas of north-east Scotland. A sharp attack was made on a place where some damage was done and there were casualties, including a number killed.
It is feared that civilian casualties were heavy in last night’s heavy raid on the Scottish town which Berlin said was Aberdeen. The raiders dropped incendiaries and high explosive bombs, directly hitting a tenement building and a nurses’ home, which were destroyed, and damaging other buildings, including a hospital and two churches.
One report said that the raiders flew in low, with machine-guns blazing. Several families are still buried under the debris of tenement houses. Search continues for bodies in a council housing scheme where several houses received direct hits and many others were badly .damaged. The Berlin radio said that the bombers caused great destruction and several extensive fires. A German communique reported that heavy bombers attacked Aberdeen from a low level and considerably damaged military installations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1943, Page 2
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185RAID ON ABERDEEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1943, Page 2
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