LONDON AS TARGET
QUICK INTERCEPTION FIERCE BATTLE OVER DORSET COAST (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) (Received August 26, 2.20 p.m.) LONDON, August 25. ! Shortly before air-raid sirens sounded in London tonight enemy planes were reported to have passed over the east, south-east, and southwest coasts. The interception by i fighters was very quick.
Five screaming bombs which fell in a south-western town killed two people and injured several others. The air battle reported earlier over the Dorset coast was extremely fierce. The German force consisted of about 40 planes. Some sources say that they greatly out-numbered the Hurricanes and Spitfires which intercepted them but they came hurtling down in flames in rapid succession. A high-explosive bomb fell 300 yards frcm a house where the United States | Ambassador was spending the wieekend. About 60 incendiary bombs fell on a nearby farm. The Berlin news agency stated that fresh waves of bombers pounding the south of England led to the abandonment of Manston aerodrome and serious damage to other aerodromes. It claimed that 51 British and 12 German planes were lost during the day's raiding in the south of England. Berlin reported that an air-raid alarm was sounded over the German capital shortly after midnight.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 49, 26 August 1940, Page 8
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