The Archive · 1941

Bristol Casualties

Bristol yesterday still was digging, out from ruins left by the Nazi fire raid of Monday night.

Casualties were heavy, the United Press correspondent in'Bristol re~ porled, because people were misled by a lull between two raids and emerged from their shelters,.atany' were caught in bed or on the streets by the second Intense attack, Many persons were believed to have been killed, 'A high explosive bomb crashed into the crypt of a church in which a largo number of persons were seeking, shelter, Many were killed, Many others also were killed when a bomb scored a direct hit on a public shelter, The Air Ministry announced that] "considerable damage" was done west England town (presumably. Bristol) during a raid Monday night Which Insted "some hours,"

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