"We saw our first bomb burst with terrific explosion on the dock, and almost at the same Instant, every gun the district seemed acti "The barrage. was too hot for us to wait and see what damage we had done, but we did turn and notice that the fire we had started on the qua side, was getting bigger and bigger:
The following raiders, coming in to attack in rapid succession, were met with a continuous barrage of fire from. pom-pom batteries, and guns of heavy bre. ne aircraft pressing home its at-through a screen of bursting shells was repeatedly hit. expected my tail turret to fall om, but luckily it did not," remarked the rear gunner of this aircraft, whose wireless operator reported that the whole of the interior fuselage was lit up by the flashes of the shells burst-Ing around him.
The aircraft reached its object jand the pilot dropped his bombs on the dockyard and saw heavy explo sions, which were followed, in a few minutes, by a huge outbreak of fire, Visible when the crew of the crippled raider were 85 miles away, on the homeward journey.
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