FEW BOMBS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 38, 14 February 1941, Page 8

FEW BOMBS

VISITS TO BRITAIN

SCATTERED TARGETS

RAID INCIDENTS

(British .Official Wireless.)

(Received February 14, 1.30 p.m.)

RUGBY, February 13.

A comnninique reports slight air activity near the west coast of Britain last night, hut very few bombs were dropped. Isolated incidents involving slight damage and injury lo a small number of people arc reported from south-west and south Wales. A few enemy aircraft, most of which were flying singly, crossed the coast during daylight today. Bombs were dropped at points, in East Anglia and north Scotland. Damage was slight aiid casualties very few. , Air-raid sirens sounded in London last evening and the drone of an enemy machine was immediately followed by the sound of anti-aircraft fire.. The alert was brief. ; i HOUSING ESTATE HIT. An enemy raider this morning dropped a stick of bombs on a coastal town in South Wales. The bombs hit a municipal housing >estate and demolished three houses. Six people were killed, including a family which was wiped out. Raiders bombed a town on \he south-west coast and iuade a direct hit on a cemetery, damaged j nearby houses, and caused a few casualties. A bomb fell in a congested area in the same town and de-1 rnol'ished several houses. A small number of people *were killed. : An Admiralty communique states that yesterday afternoon a Junkers 89 bomber was engaged and promptly destroyed by H.M. drifter Eager. There were no survivors from the German aircraft. One of the drifter's crew was wounded. "FOLLOW ME." A Wellington bomber which was endeavouring to reach Britain from a night raid with its wireless broken and its instruments made unreliable by a magnetic storm completely lost its way, and was met. by-an outgoing Hudson patrol wnile flying directly away from the British Isles. Unable to see land in the darkness, the Wellington had probably flown over part of Britain without knowing, and at sunrise, when the Hudson was met, was rapidly running' out of petrol. As the two planes approached each other the Wellington captain signalled with a hand lamp asking how far it was to the nearest land. "Follow me," came the reply from the Hudson, and the Wellington was led 140 miles back to an aerodrome near the. Scottish coast and landed safely. SHOCK FOR MESSERSCHMITT. A Messerschmitt 109 which dived to attack the Dover balloon barrage today was itself dived on and attacked by a sergeant pilot of the Fighter Command. The sergeant pilot was on patrol in a Spitfire. Describing the attack, he, said: "I was just below the clouds when an MlO9 swept down from above me on to the barrage balloon. He saw me and climbed, so I chased him and gave him a burst of three or four rounds from astern. He turned on his back and rapidly lost height. Smoke was pouring from him when he disappeared into the clouds." Since he did not see the enemy plane again the pilot only claimed that he had damaged the aircraft.

. This sergeant pilot, who has 11 enemy I'planes to his credit, recently borrowed his squadron leader's plane when his own Spitfire had been destroyed and went up in the borrowed plane and shot down an MelO9.