HOUSES & SHOPS
DAMAGED IN AXIS RAID ON BRITISH TOWN NUMEROUS CASUALTIES. SQUADS SEARCHING DEBRIS FOR VICTIMS. LONDON, July 13. German night raiders wrecked many houses, shops, a church, a theatre and a cinema in an east coast town last night. Many people were killed and rescue squads are searching the debris for victims. At least one German raider was destroyed. The. chief damage was to houses and shops. Early this morning there was a short alert in the London area. Bombs fell in one place in the Home Counties and the guns in the Thames estuary were in action. An Air Ministry .communique says that in daylight yesterday Spitfires, Mustangs and Bostons attacked transport and industrial targets in northern France and an enemy minesweeper off the Dutch coast. Several locomotives and barges and the minesweeper were damaged and oTie enemy bomber was destroyed. Two of our aircraft are missing. Fighters and fighter-bombers attacked railway and other targets in France, Holland and Belgium last night. All the planes got back.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1943, Page 3
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