AIR RAID ON HULL
Fires Caused
, LONDON, May 20. A German communique states t.iat the Luftwaffe on Tuesday nigh . dropped explosives and incendiaries the port area of Hull, starting s - eral fires. Light bombers attacked factories on the English south coast. The raid was the Luftwatfe s first night attack for 11 nights, the main objective being the town in the northeast of England. The raid was short but there were a number of casualties and some damage was caused. Bombs dropped elsewhere caused little damage and few casualties. The raiders, in spite of heavy antiaircraft fire, dive-bombed after dropping incendiaries. _ There were casualties, some fatal, in residential districts. i
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Grey River Argus, 22 May 1942, Page 5
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