DEFENCE AGAINST AIR RAIDERS
NEW RADIO-LOCATION EQUIPMENT ■ (Rec. 8.40 p.m.) . LONDON. April J Disclosing the existence of new raai . location equipment against i General Sir Frederick Pile, command . er-in-chief of Britain’s anti-aircra t . fences, presented to the factar# is making the equipment a P rope V. t - blade from a German aeroplane down near Newcastle last month- -mJ? is the first occasion that the equip® has been officially credited with ■ destruction of a raider. viuino General Pile said there more all-night raids a gf ms L B u ea vy •The Germans may attempt he** raids, but we here have some a which, in addition to alre sdy g ■■ anti-aircraft defences, will take n toll of raiders/* he added. M i Air Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-M®* lory, chief of the Fighter Cormnan said that since January 121■®i t M aeroplanes out of 960 which cross British coast had been destroyed
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23920, 12 April 1943, Page 4
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