DEVICE THAT FAILED
GERMAN USE OF FLARES AS AID TO NIGHT FIGHTERS. ATTACKING BRITISH BOMBERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON, September 1. ±he R.A.F. Bomber Command’s tremendous success in the recent attacks on Germany led the Luftwaffe to try an astonishing new defence device during the great raid on Berlin last night. Enemy fighters, flying at a great height, dropped scores of flares, forming lanes of briliant light over the clouds. As the R.A.F. machines flew into these illuminated avenues, German night fighters flew down. It was a clever plan, designed to take the bombers by surprise, but it failed because the flares illuminated the fighters also, and several interceptors were destroyed. The aviation correspondent of the “Daily Express” says the Germans apparently scraped up every available night fighter to defend Berlin. About a thousand must have been operating along the 400-mile route over • enemy territory and over Berlin.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1943, Page 4
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154DEVICE THAT FAILED Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 September 1943, Page 4
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