RAIDS ON ENGLAND
EASTBOURNE ATTACKED. (Rec. 8.38) LONDON, April 3. The main street of a south-east coast town, which the German news agency says was Eastbourne, was thronged with shoppers and gossiping groups when suddenly from the blue skyt seven or eight FWl9o’s swooped, in, and changed the .scene to one ot scurrying confusion as bombs crashed down and cannonshells whistled among the crowds. The raiders directly hit a surface shelter in which, every occupant, believed to number twelve, were killed. Forty persons in an underground shelter were not hurt when a building above the shelter collapsed. A church, chapel, and vicarage and a big unoccupied hotel were hit. Anti-aircraft batteries claimed to have hit a number of. raiders. The German news agency says that fast German bombers to-day made a' Jdw-level attack on Eastbourne. Bombers surprised defences and bombed barracks and food depots. No British lighters were encountered.
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Grey River Argus, 5 April 1943, Page 4
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149RAIDS ON ENGLAND Grey River Argus, 5 April 1943, Page 4
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