DAYLIGHT RAID
LUFTWAFFE BACK OVER BRITAIN
CANTERBURY BOMBED
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.i LONDON. October 31. The Luftwaffe today made its biggest daylight effort against Britain for two ypars. Canterbury.;was the main objective. Fifty raiders were employed, and nine of them', were shot down.
At least 10 persons were killed in Canterbury. The raid was made about dusk and lasted for half an hour, the raiders sweeping down from the cover of clouds in four waves. They ther. hedge-hopped to the coast and, ma-chine-gunned two trains and a number of villages. Aircraft of the Bomber Command today attacked targets in north-western Germany, says the Air Ministry. Factories and industrial objectives in northern France and Belgium were also bombed, aud many hits were seen This morning and again this afternoon aircraft of the Fighter Command attacked railways in northern France. Three of Our bombers and four of our 'fighters are missing.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1942, Page 4
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