NAZI RAIDERS
SCOTTISH TOWN BOMBED HEAVY CASUALTIES FEARED (Rec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, Apl. 22. It is feared that the civilian casualties will be heavy in last night's heavy raid on a Scottish town, which Berlin said was Aberdeen. The raiders dropped incendiaries and high explosives, hitting a tenement building and a nurses’ home, which were destroyed, and damaging other buildings, including a hospital and two churches. One report said the raiders flew in low with machine-guns blazing. Several families are still buried under the debris of tenement houses. The search continues for bodies in a council housing scheme, where several houses received direct hits, and many others were badly damaged. The Berlin radio said the bombers caused great destruction, and several extensive fires.
A German communique reported that heavy bombers attacked Aberdeen from a low level and considerably damaged military installations.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25208, 24 April 1943, Page 4
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