Prior to dumping the bombs the valdor swooped down on a street, machine guns blazing, "and forced women and children to plunge into doorways or flop flat on the pavement, Home Guard men fred at the plane with rifes, About the same time another raider stayed two quick strafing attacks on streets in another district before being driven off by anti-aircraft fire.
'The sound of aeroplane engines and machine guns was heard in three other London districts Inter in the' Afternoon,
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