The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-05
NAH PLANES IN RAID UPON PORTS
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 ation for inassed assaults such as those of last summer. Warm, sun- ny weather, the best since last sum- mer prevailed over the staits
 American Planes
 American made Douglas DB-7 night fighters had become a new factor in the battle. They were fly ing to France and engaging the Germans over their own airports. It was learned that the Douglas plane which shot down two German planes over France last week had brought down . Junkers-88 the newest type of German plane, Sat- urday night, contributing to the to. tal of l6 planes bagged-the largest for any one night of the war.
 Last nights raid on Liverpool and the Merseyslde was said to have been lighter than Saturday nights which created scenes of desolation. A dispatch from Liverpool Sunday afternoon said @ pail of smoke hung In the sky and that whole streets of shops and houses had been blast cd in the dusk to dawn attack of the night before. Rescuers poked through heaps of debris, searching for bodies. Food d-laden trucks and mobile canteens moved through the ruins, feeding hundreds of home- less Churches, schools, public build ings, Including several libraries, were destroyed or damaged. The casualty list was growing as more bodies, including those of firemen, were uncovered. A hospital housing 400 patients suffered a direct hit and many were trapped there Am- bulance privers in the hospital rest room were killed Gangs of work men were repairing Liverpool's in- terrupted gas and electrical services.
 Belfast got three and a half hour pounding last night Delayed action bomb explosions were still rocking the city this morning. Gas. ualties were feared to be heavy"
 A northwest British town also was attacked for several hours but cas. ualties and damage there were said to have been comparatively light. Londoners heard occasional, de. sultory gunflre but the city had no alarms last night
 Of the g raiders brought down In two night, British fighters were credited with 19, anti-aircraft gunenrs with three, and the bal- loon barrage with one.
 Strike At Shipping
 Berlin, May 5 - (U.P) Ger man bombers struck at shipping in English waters yesterday, sinking four merchantmen totaling 2l,000 tons and a destroyer, and severe ly damaging five large vessels, and pounded Belfast harbor, where fires were started in airplane works and the Vickers- Armstrong wharf, the Nazi high command reported today
 Strong bomber formations made an effective attock on Belfast last night, the high command said, re- porting that German pilots ob- ! served many large fires and above all-stretches of fires in in- stallations of the airplane industry as well as the Vickers-Armstrong wharf"
 Four merchantmen and a des- troyer were sunk and five large merchantmen were heavily dam aged. the high command said. dur ing attacks by the Luftwaffe on British naval wharves at Barrow, on the Merseyside, Ipswich and Ply mouth.
 The high command claimed "new direct hits on important mili- tAry Objectives" in the Merseyslde shipping area, "part of which still was burning from the previous nights attack"
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