MEANING OF WAR
Nazis Begin to Find Out
(Rec. 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 8. Moscow radio says that a Cologne woman, in a letter written to her husband, a prisoner of war in Russia, declared: "We are now beginning to realise what war is. "We have an alert every day and every hour. lam tired of all this." -
poured upwards and on the return journey it was long before the crews saw the last glow of the many fires in the east. DEFENCES PREPARED. Berlin's defences were ready for the attack and the R.A.F. crews knew what to expect. Scores of searchlights swept the skies and pursued the invading bombers. ■ Anti-aircraft fire was. incessant, and only stopped to let the night fighters approach. "We were-clamped in the large Ibeams of searchlights,!' a gunner said, "and Jerry was pumping up flal; as hard as he could. All of a sudden, the flak stopped and I saw a Messerschmitt 110 coming up on the starboard quarter.
"I gave it a burst and saw my tracer bullets enter the starboard engine. The Messerschmitt caught fire and crashed down. It passed us so close that I thought it was going to hit us."— 8.0. W. "
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 61, 9 September 1941, Page 7
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