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Lower Manhattan

-Lower Manhattan CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE through one of the' windows, as it would have wrecked any office that it entered." R. P. Lamborn, purchasing agent for the Kennecott Copper corporation, whose offices are on the 37th. floor, said he was sitting at his, desk near the window when he heard "a whistling sound, saw flash and then felt a concussion." A few moments later Charles N. Feldmann, assistant purchasing agent and the air raid warden for that section of the building, rushed Into Lamborn's office and they both peered out the window. They said they saw that a projectile of some kind torn away part of the bricks.' Feldmann said he thought immediately of an air raid, got his flashlight, his warden's cap and armband, and started into the main offprepared to guide some 200 employes to the shelter floor if that became necessary. Most of the workers had heard "the explosions,' Peldmann said, but did not appear to be excited. Shortly after building officials and tenants telephoned police, members of an anti-aircraft unit reported to police .that they had accidentally fired eight shells from one of their guns- a gun pointed south in the general direction of Lower Manhattan. Captain Pyke, who said he had examined five pieces of shell found in the street, said the anti-aircraft shells fired were about seven inches long and weighed about a pound. Accidental or mistaken firing on the part of anti-aircraft batteries was not infrequent in Europe at the start of the war. In the first week of September, 1939, A-A. •guns south of London shot down British fighter plane during a false alert, but the pilot bailed out and rejoined his command by 1 taxi.
Article from 14 Mar 1942Poughkeepsie Eagle-News(Poughkeepsie, NY)
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