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BKi planes which made for London last night found their welcome unusually warm * *The hottest A/A barrage ever seen took them by surprise, and they wore forced to drop their loads of bombs over fields and woods and race home for their lives: that is, those that were left, for the RAF bagged 91, 'Twenty three of our planes were losv. The success achieved is largely due to the adoption of an entirely new method of prediction The German raids caused only 18 deaths as against the several hundred of the previous four nights® The RAF did not forget Germany, the "Gifts Officer” distributing numerous little packages to military objectives over a wide area® German forests concealing secret plane factories, etc, and Gorman Harvest fields, have been given a special dose, compounded of phosphorus & celluloid* The resulting firework display was much admired, , Queen Wilhelmina, acting on behalf of the Netherlands East Indies, has presented 40 Spitfire Fighters and 18 Lockheed Hudson Bombers to H» M® the King, German planes attacked a convoy off the coast of Scotland, but the convoy battled through to its destination, A German bomb exploded in the grounds of Buckingham Palace yesterday* Nobody was hurt, but the gardincr's language was very bad, The Germans have officially accused the R A F of "hunting out non-military targets" - an apartment building was wrecked near the Tilhelmstrasso, where Adolf's official residence is located.
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Serial Waves, Volume 1, Issue 10, 13 September 1940, Page 5
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