CHASED AWAY
GERMAN FLYING-BOAT
ESCAPE INTO CLOUDS
(Received November 14, 1 p.m.) "
LONDON, November 13,
A German flying-boat appeared off the east coast. Three British fighters on patrol above the cloud level sighted the intruder 2000 feet .below them a few miles out to sea and dived in pursuit. The leader followed the German into the clouds and raked him at a range of 90 feet, shooting off a piece from the tip of a wing. The German machine replied with tracer bullets and escaped into the clouds a few hundred feet above the sea.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 9
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95CHASED AWAY Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 117, 14 November 1939, Page 9
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