RAIDS ON BRITAIN
ON SMALL SCALE
ESCORT VESSEL LOST
(British Official Wireless.)
(Received February 7, 1.20 p.m.)
RUGBY, February 6,
An Air Ministry and Home Security Ministry communique, states that during the early part of last night bombs were dropped by enemy aircraft on eastern and south-eastern England and in the London area. The raids were on a small scale. Damage was done in one or two place's but as a whole it was not heavy.
The number of casualties reported is small.
Reports of yesterday's R.A.F. operations show that two fighters were lost with their pilots, making a total of seven lost during the day. An Admiralty communique states that an enemy dive-bomber was shot down by the trawler Philomena when enemy aircraft: attacked one of our convoys off the south-east coast yesterday. No ship in the convoy was lost or damaged, but the Admiralty announces that the trawler Tournaline, one of the escorting vessels, was sunk.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 8
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158RAIDS ON BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 32, 7 February 1941, Page 8
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