READY FOR LUFTWAFFE
ANTI-AIRCRAFT IN BRITAIN British Official Wireless Rec. 11 a.m. RUGBY, Aug. 19. All anti-aircraft defences on the south and south-east coasts of Britain have been strengthened to meet the Luftwaffe's switch-over from sneak raiding to high-level bombing. In previous months light anti-aircraft guns on the coast have successfully "countered the tip-and-run raider. Now, after a lull, it is the turn of mixed batteries of heavyguns to deal with high-flying bombers and fighter-bombers using new methods of attack. How successful these mixed batteries have been is shown in reports from the south coast anti-aircraft brigade, where early in the week two "category ones" were awarded for planes definitely destroyed in a short night raid and other awards allowed for raiders so badly damaged that they probably never reached their home bases.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 197, 20 August 1943, Page 3
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