RAID ON PORTSMOUTH
“BRUISED BUT NOT DAUNTED” ( British Official Wireless. ] Received Jan. 12, 7.30 p.m. RUGBY, Jan. 11. The enemy’s night bombing on Friday was practically confined to Portsmouth, which suffered its most severe raid of the war. The Lord Mayor of Portsmouth, in a tribute to the citizens and the civil defence services, said: “At last the blow has fallen. Our proud city has been hit, and hit very hard, by the enemy. We are bruised but not daunted.” All reports of the raid are in agreement. The raiders were kept very high by an intense anti-aircraft barrage. They adopted the newest practice of the German Air Force of showering down fire-bombs at an early stage of the attack. After a few bombs there was a pause and later a new wave of raiders arrived. The damage was minimised in a number of areas by the efficient work of fire-bomb fighting parties of neighbours, who extinguished hundreds of incendiaries.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 10, 13 January 1941, Page 6
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