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BY ITS OWN BOMB. GERMAN AIRMEN’S FATE. AFTER INDISCRIMINATE ATTACK. (United Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, October 14. Swift punishment met an enemy bomber-which dropped out of the clouds over a south coast town one evening recently and machine-gunned civilians, says the Air Ministry news service. ■ The firing was entirely indiscriminate.. Nothing was in the view of . the pilot of the aircraft except civilians, shops and small houses. He was flying at a height of about 500 feet. After this attack the enemy turned and flew in the direction of the next seaside town, but some distance outside this second town there was a searchlight post, and on the approach of the enemy, the ground defences open up with light anti-aircraft fire.
The firing was immediately effective. The raider dived straight into the grounds. One of its bombs exploded on the crash and the aircraft .was .blown to pieces. Nothing recognisable of the crew was found, only one tattered German air force paybook and an identity disc was picked up from the wreckage.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 3, 15 October 1940, Page 5
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