TERRIFIC BLAST
V-BOMB EXPLODES HIGH CASUALTY TOLL (9 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 7. Many people were killed when a V-bomb recently wrecked a restaurant, a public house, a post office and a furniture store in a busy street in Southern England. An army lorry standing at a corner was blown to pie’ees. and soldiers who were in it are untraced. The front wheels were found 300yds. away. A taxi was blown head-on against a wall, and what remained of it had to be torn apart to extricate the shattered bodies of the driver and passengers. The street was blocked by masses of debris.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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102TERRIFIC BLAST Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21582, 8 December 1944, Page 8
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