PLANES SHOT DOWN
CAPTURE OF CREWS CRASH INTO DEEP WELL BOMBS IN LONDON SUBURB (United Preas Assn. —Elec. Tel. Copyrlgnt) (Received August 28, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, August 27 German bombers attacked a convoy for an hour off the Scottish coast. A British fighter shot down a Domier over a south-west England town this afternoon. Three members of the crew were captured. A Spitfire shot down a raider in south-west England this morning. Three members of the crew were captured unhurt. A Messerschmitt was shot down by a Spitfire over the Isle of Wight and crashed down a well 90 feet deep after the pilot had baled out. He was picked up from the sea.
When two bombs fell in the back garden of a house in a London suburb early this morning the police ordered the evacuation of nearly 1000 persons from the neighbourhood, because it was believed that the bombs had not exploded. Military experts later ascertained that the bombs had exploded underground, whereupon the residents, some of whom were still wearing their night-clothes, returned to their homes in the afternoon.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21203, 28 August 1940, Page 5
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