Appearing suddenly out of a cloud yesterday afternoon, a German plane dived to about 400 feet over the centre of Norwich and dropped bombs which killed five people and injured several others.
One bomb demolished part of a warehouse, and the second struck another building. Another bomb wrecked a restaurant, the explosion lifting off the roof. The Ministry of "Home Security announced that a single enemy aircraft, flying at a great height, had crossed the East Coast earlier in the afternoon.
Elsewhere, enemy activity was confined to occasional flights over the English Channel, where two enemy aircraft were shot down by British fighters, yesterday evening. One British fighter failed to return from patrol.
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