The Archive · 1940

Fourteen Air Ports

Altogether 14 aerodromes in Germany, Holland, Belgium and France attacked.

ding German raids on Bri-a communique of the Air Mind Ministry of Home Security reveal that an attack made on a barrage of balloons at Dover and that a lightship was bombed.

The lightship was sunk after each of six Dorni dropped two bombs, one of which struck it a killing two of the crew and wounding others, who escaped in a boat before the ship sank.

A flight of Hurricanes streaked accrass the One overtook and pounced upon the tail of a bomber, which was sent spinning into the sea, riddled with machinegun bullets. The others escaped over France. The survivors of the lightship were re-soued.

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