When about 50 planes came over the London area during the fourth warning, Spitfires dived and scattered their formations. Crowds in the streets cheered as two enemy planes were brought down.
Football enthusiasts bellowed approval when a Spitfire tackled two bombers above a field where they were watching a match.
At least 40 bombers made two determined efforts to pierce defence of an outlying south-eastern area. Four enemy craft were shot down in these attacks.
A row of shops was extensively damaged by a stick of bombs unloaded over a district in the London outskirts, One raider jettisoned his bombs when chased by a Spitfire.
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British bombs came near to the Wiühelmstrasse and Herr Hitler's Chancellery and one landed squarely in the courtyard of the headquarters of the fire brigade.
According to an early morning report received here, huge fires were raging in Berlin after the R.A.F. raid early Saturday.
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