Thousands of Bombs Dropped on Residential And Business Quarters, Hundreds Homeless Plymouth, Mar. 21. GERMAN planes fast night and early this morning poured per haps 10,000 incendiary bombs and hundreds of high explosives on this already much bomb-scarred town, razing rows of partially ruined houses and shops and damaging new areas in the, heaviest raid made on it since the war began.
Hundreds were left homeless as a result of the attack, which left the city pitted with huge craters and littered with tons of debris, as though devastated by an earthquake.
Homes, offices, shops, apartments and hotels were ruins after the furious attack that was carried out by waves of planes swouping on the city almost continuously from dusk until well after midnight, Many streets were torn up and others were blocked by debris of buildings.
Explosions shook the city and the rattle of anti-aircraft batteries set, up deafening din. Flames. in many areas of. the ity resulted in a red low reficeted in the sky.
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