FIRE BOMB AS FOOTBALL
When two fire bombs fell on an uninhabited house on a hill-ton in Kent while a stiff breeze was blowing, a soldier of the Royal Corps of Signals kicked one of them into the road and dribbled it along like a football. He was badly burned on the right leg, A second bomb, which lodged in a fence, was pulled out by another soldier. Both men were taken to hospital.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20431, 16 December 1940, Page 12
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74FIRE BOMB AS FOOTBALL Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20431, 16 December 1940, Page 12
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