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SUCCESSFUL AIR ATTACKS LARGE BRITISH SHIP HIT (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright) (Received July 5, 3.15 p.m.) BERLIN, July 4 The High Command stated that German bombers on July 3 successfully attacked British installations, coastal fortifications, aerodromes, camps and war industry plants, including the Aldershot camp, the Reading aircraft factory, and heavy coastal batteries near Newhaven. Two heavy bombs hit a large ship in a British convoy in the Channel. British planes bombed northern and western Germany, unscrupulously attacking the civilian population. Several enemy planes last night carried out raids over Belgium and Holland, but caused no substantial damage. Six enemy planes were destroyed. Four of our planes are missing.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21157, 5 July 1940, Page 8
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