MOONLIGHT RAID
LUFTWAFFE OVER ENGLAND London, Feb. 13. Ten casualties, including two killed, resulted from a moonlight raid by the Luftwaffe to-night on a town on the south-west coast. High-explosive bombs fell in a residential area where people were catching last buses home. Two other towns on the south-west coast were also bombed, but the damage was not considerable anywhere. Civilian casualties by air raids in Britain during January amounted to 328 killed or missing, believed killed, and 507 injured.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 38, 16 February 1943, Page 5
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80MOONLIGHT RAID Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 38, 16 February 1943, Page 5
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