The Archive · 1939

No Damage Nor Casualty

According to the Admiralty, no damage was done and no casualties were sustained, On German plane is reported to have been destroyed.

In the morning and afternoon the observer corps, says an Air Ministry announcement, reported German air reconnaissance activity along the east coast, An air-raid warning was issued in some districts om the coasts of Lincolnshire, East Anglia and Kent, Immediate action was taken by British fighters and anti-aircraft defences, No bomb was dropped on any of these districts, One German aircraft was intercepted on the Yorkshire coast end pursued to sea. During the day British fighters observed two German planes off the north-east coast and brought both down in the sea. The crew of one was saved, All the British machines returned safely.

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