The Archive · 1941

London Has Two Alerts

Following a brief alert in the London area last night, a second alert was sounded before midnight British night fighters claimed 29 of Saturday night's record bag of German bombers shot down. the other four being victims of the terrific fire put up by anti-aircraft batteries. One test pilot accounted for three of these victims, The relentless way in which the raiders were pursued is shown by the feat of one British pilot. who destroyed two enemy bombers within a few minutes of each other after chasing them as far as the Dutch coast, The most successful fighter pilot in the R.A.F, shot down one enemy bomber in Sunday night's reids. is di: elosed by the Air Ministry news vice, which states that his indivi-

It claims that five British planes were brought down.

On the other hands the agency says: "Several hundred German bombers attacked war objectives in south England and the Midlands last night. A number of aerodromes was attacked."

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