The bombers were visible as tiny silver specks, fying at an extremely. high altitude, the correspondent said.
'The most' intensive battles yet seen" developed as British Spitfires
Hundreds of bullets and shell frag-dowa on the Germans. ments fell on the streets of the port, he reported. At least two German planes were shot down, he The Royal "Air Force and the ground defences claimed that they Srought down one out of every four raiders to have flown over Britain on Sunday. Forty-eight of the German planes were shot down by the fighters of the RA.P, while anti-aircraft guns: claimed six victims.
Staging their fifth strack on London area at 1230 am, (830 am. Shanghai time, Monday), the German planes dropped four bombs on a residential section of London near a parish' cchureb, shattering every window in the vicinity.
'Sweeping in from "Hell's Corner" on the Dover coast, the German planes staged their attack of the night. The raid lasted 20 minutes, during which time the weird noise' of German "screech bombs" could be, heard throughout Greater London.
An unoccupied alr raid shelter was demolish in the second night raid by a bomb in a London suburb, while another fell on a garden,
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