The Archive · 1940

Many Delayed Action Bombs

Many of the bombs dropped were whistlers" designed to terrorize the populace. There was also a high percentage of delayed action bombs which exploded nutes or hours after they had buried themselves in the blackedout city.

The raiders came singly or in small formations during most of the alarm period and where search lights were able to pick out the raiders from low clouds they were opposed by fierce anti-aircraft fire.

The East End working class trict was again bombed indiscrimi ately, but, in addition, the West End got a goodly share of incendiaries and high explosives which littered (Continued on page 2, el 43)

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