The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-13

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 A l5-year-old boy was captured in one of the downed bombers.
 The German raiders at some points were taking advantage of cover afforded by clouds. They emerged from the clouds at low attitudes and sought to drop their bombs and whisk back into the clouds before British fighters could attack them.
 Two German bombers were re- ported shot down at sea, one off the northeast coast and another of the southeast coast. A third bomber was believed shot down in the chan nel and three more were thought to have been brought down at unspeci- fled locations.
 Later it was reported that new squadrons of German planes had appeared over the southeast area.
 Seven Down at Once
 Seven German planes were re- ported down in 8 single fight over the southeast coast during the fore noon, a fight in which more than 100 German planes including 35 Dornier bombers ran into a blast of anti-aircraft gun fire and then were attacked by spitfire fighters.
 Air raid precautions men saw three German planes plunge into the sea and another crash ashore.
 A fifth German plane, a Messer- schmidt. 1t was asserted, crashed into a road after machine gunning road workers. The workers ran to attack the flyers with their picks and spades, but soldiers, bayonetted rifles ready, ran up and seized them.
 The German planes were attack ing with increasing fury all over the country, reports indicated. They resumed the use of the screaming bombs with which they had terror ized people on the continent, and a few of them dropped not bombs but more of the leaflets containing extracts from Adolf Hitler'S reich stag speech inviting the people of Britain to surrender or die.
 Raids centered still on England and especially in the southeast coast region, but they extended to Wales and Scotland.
 200 Bombs in One Zone More than 200 high explosive and incendiary bombs were dropped on one southeastern England area Three cottages were demolished and several persons were killed.
 There were several casualties, n- cluding at least one fatal one, when a high explosive bomb struck a resi- dential section in a northeast Eng land town. Several small fires were started but were put out quickly.
 Eight German aviators who para chuted from two crashing planes over one southeastern England town were made prisoner.
 Fifty German bombers dropped 80 high explosive bombs on a Thames Estuary town. Flying low they dropped their bombs in 6 straight line across the town. Four homes, a bus station and a public hall were ruined. Several homes were damaged. casualties were re- ported light. British fighters, dart ing to the attack, shot down one German plane in flames and it fell into the water. Townspeople saw g British fighter rapidly overhauline 8 German bomber as it fled to sea ripping it with machine gun bull lets.
 A fleet of bomber and fighter planes, returning toward France after bombing inland, shot down two balloons of the balloon barrage over a southeast coast town.
 Machine Gun Fire
 Machine gun fire was heard over another southeast town, coming from above the clouds, at intervals of two and three minutes, indicating that German planes were flying over in waves and were being attacked by British fighters.
 Singly and in fleets, the German