London, June 20. Three German bombers were shot down by Spitfire pilots of an RAF. fighter command during the series of raids over English and Scottish coasts last night, the Air Ministry announces.
The night's successes were shared by three fighter squadrons, each of which had actus! experience over France. The first came shortly before midnight when a Heinkel 111 was disabled. A quarter of an hour later a pilot of another squadron made a head-on attack on an enemy bomber picked up by searchlights near Humber. The searchlight crew saw the bomber crash. In another hour the pilot of a third fighter squadron shot a Heinkel down in flames near Grimsby, while at almost the same time his squadron leader was destroying another farther south. Earlier in the evening a Hurricane pilot back from patrol over France encountered a formation of three Heinkel 111's near Amiens and shot down one.—Reuter. which German transports might hope to approach the coast were heavily mined as were possible landing points.
In the English Channel the British Navy concentrated scores of destroyers and observation ships to act as the advance guard against fne Germans and as the eyes of the land forces, R.A.F, patrols also have been re-infareed around the entire coast to meet German aerial attacks and observe possible German naval movements, All civilians have been evacuated from the new military zone which is being rapidly converted into o belt of steel around the exterior of the British Isles.
Inside the new ring of steel volunteer defence forces continued training to be ready for possible landings by German parachute troops. Private owners of firearms were contributing them to the Government to aid in arming the volunteer forces which number thousands,
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