PROMPTLY SHOT DOWN
VISITORS YESTERDAY
LITTLE NIGHT ACTIVITY
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received November 27, 12.20 p.m.)
RUGBY, November 26.
Most of the small number of enemy aircraft wh^ch crossed the south and south-east coasts of Britain today were promptly shot down. As against two German bombers and two fighterbombers destroyed the R.A.F. suffered no loss.
A bomb was dropped in a town on the Sussex coast, doing some damage to buildings and causing a few slight casualties. At a coastal town in Kent the enemy delivered a. short burst of machine-gun fire which caused no casualties and very little damage. The Air Ministry reports that shortly after dark the enemy dropped several bombs in the west of England, but. did little damage. The casualties were few, but included some killed. Otherwise there was no enemy activity over Britain last night.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 129, 27 November 1940, Page 7
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