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      sinking condition off the Dutch Coast.
 
      
 
 
8. Night of March 7th-March 8th. Operations canceled.
 
      
 
 
9. German Air Force. March 7th about fifty enemy aircraft % 
      were operating overland in wide localities and forty more were 
      working off East coast. One enemy aircraft was destroyed by anti-aircraft 
      shore battery and one by a Naval trawler, a third hit the mast 
      of a ship and crashed.
 
      
 
 
10. Night March 7-March 8th. Activity negligible.
 
      
 
 
11, Malta. Night of March 6th/March 7th. Twelve enemy aircraft 
      made individual attacks on various objectives without causing 
      serious damage or casualties.
 
      
 
 
12. March 7th. Four bombers escorted by 10 ME 109's damaged 
      a Sunderland by machine-gun fire, shot down a Glen Martin and 
      also one Hurricane out of seven which intercepted. Pilot saved. 
      Two enemy aircraft were probably destroyed by anti-aircraft fire.
 
      13. Aircraft casualties in operations over and from British Isles. 
      German, three destroyed. British nil.
 
      
 
 
14. Home Security March 7th. A ball-bearing factory was hit 
      and seriously damaged. Thirty-six persons were killed and forty-seven 
      seriously injured; production has been stopped probably for seven 
      days.
 
      
 
 
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