SHORT, SHARP RAID
SOUTH ENGLISH COASTS
Rec. 9 a.m,
LONDON, May 29.
German planes made a short, sharp raid on coastal districts in southern England last night. Twenty-six persons were killed when a hotel in a town on the south-west coast was directly hit by a bomb. A lone raider dropped a bomb on an "old-world village on the south coast, causing some casualties. Raiders were also reported over east and north-east England. One enemy plane was destroyed. Raiders flew over the Thames estuary shortly before dawn. They were flying at a high altitude, and no incidents are reported. A German communique says the Luftwaffe last night attacked Torquay and Brighton. The Germans evidently expected some movement connected with the invasion plans, says the Press Association's aviation correspondent, commenting on last night's raids on England. The raids seemed to be designed to gain information about coastal movements, with a destructive attack against one area as a diversion. The Germans in the last few days had named today as the invasion date.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 126, 30 May 1944, Page 5
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