RAIDER SHOT DOWN
j; WATCHED BY TOWNSPEOPLE I j 1 t : l NO TRACE OF AIRMAN J i WIDESPREAD WRECKAGE (United Pres* Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) ; LONDON, Oct. 17 H Within 70 minutes of the beginning : of London’s 40th successive night of air raids, the people of Bishop Stortford, Hertfordshire, were for the ; second time within 24 hours delighted ! eye-witnesses of the destruction of a 1 German night-raider. Wreckage was strewn over a wide 1 area. There was no trace of the air- 1 men, but a burnt parachute was ' found hanging on a tree near by. j 1 The machine, a twin-engine bomber, was brought down by anti- 7: aircraft fire. The remnants of it ; . blazed furiously for an hour. Another similar bomber was shot j , down in the sea off the south-east coast. j
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21247, 18 October 1940, Page 7
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135RAIDER SHOT DOWN Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21247, 18 October 1940, Page 7
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