RAIDS ON ENGLAND
BIG GUNS IN ACTION ACROSS
CHANNEL
i (Rec. 12.45 p.m.) LONDON Aug. 13. A news agency message reports that : a few night raiders flew over East Anglia and dropped bombs at scattered points, including the Greater London area, in which seven persons i were killed and throe induced. A ■ single flight raider bombed two points on the south-eastern coast of Scotland. A German fighter-bomber raided a town on the south coast in daylight, injuring three persons. Big guns on both sides of the, Channel -were in action last night, contributing to one of the noisiest nights the Straits of Dover have experienced. The Germans, who apparently were using more guns than usual,- fired' some sixjgun salvoes. i Berlin radio says' that the Luft- ■ waffe heavily bombea port iristallt-" tions at a town on the Firth of Fotfh. t and also an aerodrome to the. south, - and also aircraft factories in. * jtown^ J^ the West Midland*! * ' 7
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 39, 14 August 1942, Page 5
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159RAIDS ON ENGLAND Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 39, 14 August 1942, Page 5
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