NIGHT FIGHTERS
OVER ENEMY AERODROMES
LONDON, May 16,
American-built Havocs were again among the aircraft of the Fighter Command active over enemy aerodromes last night. Four aerodromes were bombed. A pilot who had already dropped his bombs elsewhere saw on an aerodrome an enemy aircraft landing along the flarepath. He dived and opened fire. At one air base bombs hit a building and started what the pilot called "quite a good fire." At another aerodrome a fighter pilot saw a machine taxi-ing across the landing. He flew down and released his load of bombs right across the aerodrome. Mr. Warrender, M.P., said the R.A.F. was known to have hit more than 80 vessels with bombs in home waters in the past month. The tonnage involved was well over 180,000, of which at least 60,000 had been sunk.—U.P.A.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 116, 19 May 1941, Page 7
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