Raiders Over Britain Lose Six In Action

Northern Advocate, 5 March 1945, Page 4

Raiders Over Britain Lose Six In Action

(Rec. 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Mar. 4. Six enemy planes were destroyed over Britain last night. R.A.F. nightfighters were in action against the raiders which were the first over Eritain since June last year. Mosquito pilots shot down two of the six destroyed. One enemy plane 'crashed on a farmhouse, killing two women. The plane carried away the front part of the house, which was set on fire, trapping the inmates. The badly mangled bodies of two German airmen were thrown clear. Another raider bombed and ma-chine-gunned an eastern district of north England. The • raider flew in low, dropping a stick of small highexplosive bombs on a village. Two men were killed and a school and a number ,of houses damaged. The raider returned and machine-gunned the district, killing a man. Another raider only a few hundred feet from the ground sprayed an East Anglian town with cannon-shells. A warden was wounded. Some residents narrowly escaped when shells tore into houses. Small bombs dropped in neighbouring villages injured an American soldier and a civilian. The Press Association aviation correspondent says preliminary reports suggest that the German raiders adopted “scalded cat 1 ’ tactics. The raids were carried out over a. wide area, but the force was not formidable. Some raiders penetrating the East Coast defences seemed to be spy planes. '