HOT RECEPTION
GIVEN TO FOCKE=WULFS RAIDING SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND. GUNS BRING DOWN TWO WITHIN SECONDS. (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) LONDON. May 30. All the light anti-aircraft batteries in an area in South-West England opened up as German Focke-Wulf fighter-bombers this afternoon swept in from the sea, and two raiders crashed within seconds. A third raider was shot down by a R.A.F. fighter. The anti-aircraft guns shot down three and also claimed hits on additional planes. The Nazis machinegunned a town, scattering children going to Sunday School. One bomb hit a large private hotel. Others fell on a shopping area and damaged properties by blast. The casualties include a number of people killed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 4
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116HOT RECEPTION Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 May 1943, Page 4
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