World Battlefronts: Flutterers

Londoners were smugly sure that Nazi bombers could never get at them in force again. One of the reasons was Britain's radiolocation system, the other its big, trigger-itchy night fighter force. But twice last week bombers pierced London's bristling ack-ack defenses, bombed London and provoked from Winston Churchill the remark: "It's quite like old times again." But it differed from old times in that very little military damage was done and fires were far apart and confined.

If the Germans had actually upset London's locaters, they might have done the trick with tin foil....

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