An artist's impression of an action in which Spitfires successfully attacked two German traw'ers to creep *llong the coast of Franco. In the face of strong A.A. (ire from the ti awlers the Spitfires split up into sections to make low-level attack? that finished up at point b":ank range. Hundreds of cannon shells and machine gun'bullets were, fired intu the enemy ships and when the Spitfires started for home both vessels were on fire.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 79, 8 June 1943, Page 3
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74An artist's impression of an action in which Spitfires successfully attacked two German traw'ers to creep *llong the coast of Franco. In the face of strong A.A. (ire from the ti awlers the Spitfires split up into sections to make low-level attack? that finished up at point b":ank range. Hundreds of cannon shells and machine gun'bullets were, fired intu the enemy ships and when the Spitfires started for home both vessels were on fire. Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 79, 8 June 1943, Page 3
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