WAR ON BRITAIN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 147, 3 April 1941, Page 6

WAR ON BRITAIN

SMALL RAIDS ON AERODROMES.

SOME FATAL CASUALTIES. FIVE ENEMY DESTROYED. (United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Rec. 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, April 2. An Air Ministry communique says: “Under cover of low cloud the enemy yesterday attempted a. number of small attacks on our aerodromes. Prompt action was taken by the ground defences and most of the attacks were ineffective, though, at one station theft 1 were a number of casualties, including several killed. 'Some damage was done to buildings hut tho serviceability of the aerodromes was not affected. “Two of four enemy aircraft destroyed yesterday were engaged in these attacks. Others were damaged and it is now known that a fifth enemy bomber was destroyed late in the day. One of our fighters is missing.”

An enemy bomber was shot down into the -English Channel this morning by fighters of the Royal Air Force.— British Official Wireless. Enemy air activity over Britain last night was on a slight scale. A few bombs were dropped at one place in the south-west of England, but little damage was caused and there were no casualties. London had its twelfth night in succession without a raid. FivC German bombers were destroyed over Britain yesterday, three of them being brought down by fighters, within an hour. Two were shot down off the coast of Wales, while protecting shipping. One of the German planes was destroyed by a squadron leader who was shot down at Dunkirk, and later, after two unsuccessful attempts, escaped from Germany.

A German communique stales that bombers attacked aerodromes at Newquay, in the Midlands, and: on the south coast of England. Hangars and barracks were directly hit and grounded planes wore destroyed.