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The Halifax Daily Courier & Guardian. Tuesday 28 Mar 1944
Page 4 Column 4
ELEVEN GERMAN RAIDERS DOWN LAST NIGHT
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Berlin Says Bristol Bombed
Switching over to the west of England, South Wales and parts of the south and south-east, enemy raiders last night lost at least eleven planes in scattered attacks over a wide area.
Incendiaries and high explosives were dropped indiscriminately, causing some damage and a few casualties, but the worst “incident” was due to an A.A. shell, which, while enemy planes were overhead, crashed through the roof of a building in Wales, killing eight and seriously injuring 16 people.
The German version of these scattered attacks is that the A.A. defences in the south of England “suffered what is probably their greatest defeat.”
German News Agency, stating that Bristol was the objective of a “sharp attack” which lasted half an hour, adds that incendiaries were “dropped in a novel way” and caused “big fires.”
<NOTES: One went down at Rowford, Cheddon Fitzpaine, Somerset (in the grounds of Hestercombe House) and another went down at Walrond's Park Farm, Isle Brewers, Somerset>