The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-09

tncks during the night on Berlin, Emden and other targets in north- west Germany and on German coast- al shipping.
 "1n daylight yesterday, shipping was attacked of the Norwegian coast. A German ercort vessel was left afire and down ,y the stern.
 "Ten aircraft of our bomber com- mand are missing from the night operations and one from the day operations.
 Aircraft of the coastal command attacked the submarine base at St. Naziare last night. None of these aircraft is missing"
 Fierce Duel Yn Air
 London, May g. tUP) - British moonlight fighters blasted ii more German bombers out of the sky last night, bringing the German air force losses to ti7 planes and ap- proxlmately 400 highly trained men already this month.
 The Germans slightly reduced the size of their raiding force last night in the face of these losses, but they made heavy attacks on the Humber (HulD area, two districts in the North Midlands, and many other points In England and North Ire- land.
 In one battle between mass for nations of British and German planes over East Anglica, six Ger man planes were brought down in flames in AS minutes, according to an air ministry statement.
 "A squadron Of (British) night fighters, patroling an area Of the east coast, ran Into a wave of enemy bombers coming in from the sea-" the statement said. "One after another the night fighters picked out & raider and closed in to attack.
 "The squadron leader saw three | enemy bombers within Q few nlin- utes. The first was in flames and was being chased by a fighter. The | second he downed himself. The third | got away after a short exchange of | shots"
 Pilots I'm Single Battles
 A New Zealand pilot brought | down two bombers in 10 minutes. The first fell to the earth In flames after the rear gunner had tried des- perately to fight back. The second exploded in the air and the pieces fell Into the sea i've miles offshore.
 Another pilot, according to the air ministry, engaged 8 German Jurkers-08 bomber, chasing 1t in 30 miles out to sea, firing ali the way" The final burst of shots set the bomber afare and "as 1t went down, the clouds glowed red," the air ministry said.
 A squadron leader shot down his second Dornier-l7 bomber In two nights.
 Tn another area, a British squad ron came upon two raiders and got them both, one crashing at sea, the other on land.
 The principals in all these fights banked and dived over blacked- out countryside, their tracer bullets describing vivid patterns in the sky.
 The German losses now totaled 49 in 36 hours, including 14 yester- day and 24 the night before. For the first nine days of May the to- tals were 85 night raiders and 32 day raiders destroyed. The night raiders are bombers, carrying crews of four or i've, and the day raiders are mostly single-seat Messer- carrying one man. It Is thus estimated that Germany has lost 400 airmen in nine days.
 Lost To Germany
 Whether they are killed or des- cend safely by parachute, the crews of all destroyed plans are lost to the German air force except in the few cases where they are shot down over German airports in northern France and make parachute land- Ings.
 One of the first two planes shot town last night fell on the first tee ,f golf course. Another fell near m industrial works.
 Two were brought down in the London area soon after an alarm bounded. Three bodies were found n the wreckage of one of these, md another body was found near y. A person who saw the first Lon- !, lon raider, fall, said, T heard the ,lane overhead. then violent explo- ions and loud zoom. I saw the ,lane burst into flames in the air, \ witness to the other crash said, !. 1t fell like . tremendous ball of ed Ire and bursts. Its flares and | ncendiaries were hurled nunureds i < feet into the sky by the explo- ton as the wxecka@e hit the ground {