Ka Hoku o Hawaii, Volume XXXV, Number 36, 1 Ianuali 1941 — Bombing Of Croyden Described In Letter [ARTICLE]

Bombing Of Croyden Described In Letter

fcoor Ittfle hou*e huf* been wrecked by €«eniy act!on and ls unlnhahiUW# . . . <flfeleted). They eame a!ong 9 p.m. and dropped a »tick ®f t>ombS whieh broaght āowū & -#elHS£and burst the door. w an hour later they eame 8g»ln and finished us off by dropping an H.E. bomb in tfie garden opposlte. We got the full elfect of Ihe blast The h.oase oppos!te was Mown in two. It was an «stperien<*e, l9oml)s crāshlngi gurtV lwiHnp, people shrieklng for help In pitch darlmess and iey raln. In addltlon, they maebine-ganne<r~Uß.

i One of my pictures has a bullet hole ] throos"h lt. How we escaped i' don't hnow, but we dtd. "it I# lnipoBsible to describe the horrors of thl« war. We oame in from the I/ondon slege and Croydon ls a ver>' spot hot $pot. The deva9ttitlon "among tlie olvlllaDS ls cruel but mHltary dantage 1S eompan»*''vtfy slight." Flre Bomb« "Poor old Oroydon looks awful. There was a blg blaze when those frtends dropped flre bonibs and, I t»e»r, destroved two or three roads. Nobody talks . . . (deleted) In fact the ontrajres on dēfenseless people make everyone ?rinily determined to faee lt out !n spite of sirens galore and heavy gtm l»arrasrt; every ahd bomhs atl around us. are #everal Just around the fcotise une*ploded. The R-E. eome and deal with them and are known a? the Suicide Sq«ad. I think they are the hravest men of all. How is your dog? lOurs ?rot away all npht"

Al«rajrs llsten patlently to the oplnlon of others; the elianee» are vo« wlll der!vo n« beneflt t!iervfroro, hut lt wlll please them.