Among the German losses were three Dornier 17s, brought down by Spitfires five miles inland on the north-east coast. The crew of one Dornier, which fell with a wing off, escaped by parachute and were taken prisoner.
When a Junkers 88 crashed near a south-eastern town, the pilot of a British fighter who had attacked it, landed to see what had happened te the crew. He found all the five occupants dead.
Damage to houses was done in several places when towns in south and east England and in the Midlands were bombed. The number of casualties was small, though some were fatal.
In one residential area a short attack was made on the inhabitants by machine-gun fire.
A solitary raider who dived from the clouds on a south-eastern town dropped a heavy calibre bomb, which reduced eight of the town's working-class cottages to debris. It is feared that a number of lives were lost.
Two German aircraft which bombed a town in Lincolnshire were both shot down, their bombs having caused little damage and no casualties.
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