BOMBER DESTROYED
Victim Of Balloon Barrage (British Official Wireless.) (Received January 20, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, January 19. When a German bomber crashed into a balloon barrage cable on the northeast coast a few nights ago a large part of a wing was ripped off and fell into the next balloon site, says the Air Ministry news service. It had been carried by the wind after having been clearly severed from the raider. The bomber, a Dornier, caine down just over a mile away after hitting the cable. When an R.A.F. officer reached the blazing aircraft he found the bodies of three of the crew, others being buried in the wreckage. Members of the crew of the balloon site first heard the bomber coming in very fast and low. As it. passed the next site the ground staff heard the crash of the aircraft against the balloon cable.
The barrage balloons have given the German pilots a healthy respect for height when approaching industrial areas and towns in Britain. They force the raider up above the barrage where he can most effectively be dealt with by A.A. fire or by British fighters.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 99, 21 January 1942, Page 7
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